Speaker 2: Recommendation to select the Brookfield Properties Cattell team to develop the West Midway Project at Alamein, appoint an authorized city manager to negotiate an exclusive negotiation agreement with the team, consistent with the form in the DNA included in the request for qualifications.
Speaker 1: All right. And who is.
Speaker 0: The retail giant? Michelle Giles is going to do a brief staff report.
Speaker 1: All right. Hi there, Michelle. Hello. When you're ready. She's muted and she's muted. Ms.. Ms.. Giles.
Speaker 0: I don't see my who you are.
Speaker 1: I don't see you on camera.
Speaker 0: Yeah. I don't either. I can't. It's hard to admit when I don't see myself.
Speaker 1: Are you on a laptop or an iPad? A laptop should be down in the lower left corner. But you know what?
Speaker 3: I can hear.
Speaker 0: You. Just hear me. Okay.
Speaker 1: Here you are. There you are.
Speaker 0: Hi. Hi. Okay. So quick. I'm right there. The city council directed staff to do a three week request for qualification for the development of West Midway. And that and that was for the three development teams that had responded previously. And we're still interested in being involved in the development. On March 9th, SAP issued an updated RFQ, and on March 30th, staff received two developer statements of qualifications, one from a partnership.
Speaker 4: At Personal Properties in September.
Speaker 0: And another five for equity investment. A city selection panel review to the two. As of Tuesday, April 9th, we did an interview with each developer on.
Speaker 4: WebEx.
Speaker 0: And tonight recommending the team of Brookfield to tell us about the development process. By the way, project and for the following reasons they were selected. First, they demonstrated that they spent a significant amount of time evaluating and planning the land uses and basing concepts that would meet both the goals of the Reshape and the West Midway Project . And they engaged a significant amount of time with the collaborating partners in discussions. They also demonstrated a well informed grasp of challenges and issues that were.
Speaker 4: That could they.
Speaker 0: Could face and possibly came up with mitigations that were that could possibly.
Speaker 4: Address them. And three, the.
Speaker 0: Focus of the team showed significant dedication to moving the.
Speaker 4: Project forward.
Speaker 0: By committing to use each internal equity to.
Speaker 4: Fund the backbone infrastructure.
Speaker 0: So with that, staff recommends that the City Council select the Capello team to develop the rest of the.
Speaker 4: Project and direct the.
Speaker 0: City manager.
Speaker 4: To negotiate.
Speaker 0: An exclusive negotiation agreement with the development team. I'm happy to answer the questions. And we also, I think, still have representatives.
Speaker 4: From.
Speaker 0: Brookfield. We do what.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 0: Available to.
Speaker 1: Do. Thank you, Miss Giles. Nicely done. I see the three gentlemen before us. Mr. McCoy. Mr. Roskam in. Mr. Rhoden, I would give you like a minute. I mean, I'd love to give you even longer, but I bet you'd like a vote on this tonight. And your chances of getting that are greatly increased by the brevity of your comments. Who wants to go first? Don't wait too long to tell me. Mr. McCoy, is that you? You've been muted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad. I would just like to say thank.
Speaker 3: You very much for getting us.
Speaker 4: To this point and then pass over to Josh and Sean. And just one more thing. You know, our team is very.
Speaker 3: Excited about this project. We have put a lot of work into the RFQ and.
Speaker 4: It's just an.
Speaker 3: And you guys want it done and we want to get it done for the city. So if Josh.
Speaker 4: Or Sean wants anything, yes, I would. This is Josh Rodin.
Speaker 1: Mr. Rodin. Hi.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'd second that. And Mr..
Speaker 1: Brookfield.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: As you all know, we've been at the podium a number of times and we're very pleased to be recommended and look forward to the opportunity with working with the Reshape team and the city. And we have two very good team members here and more than that with all of our other partners and consultants involved. So I think we've got an A-plus team to be able to move forward.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr. Roskam. And how about you?
Speaker 4: Well, I would just like to to reiterate those previous comments that we were very excited to be here were and we've always loved this project. We've always loved 2.2. We've really enjoyed a 20 plus year working relationship with the city of Alameda and looking forward to the opportunity here. We think it's very exciting. So thank you for your consideration and perhaps recommendations for answering questions.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Stand by. In case counsel has any questions. Counsel would like to lead this discussion. Councilman Brody.
Speaker 4: Do we have public speakers?
Speaker 1: Oh, good question. Thank you. Do we have public speakers?
Speaker 2: We have one written public comment. And if any one who's an attendee would raise their hand now, we could know. No one has raised their hand. Okay, we can. I'll wait.
Speaker 4: Can I do that?
Speaker 0: Then let's set.
Speaker 1: Duet Council member.
Speaker 4: Eddie, you should lead the discussion, but I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes. Hold. Hold that file. Yes. That's why I took her speed reading.
Speaker 2: He Gold Ware Pot Lorry from Mid-Penn Housing Corp. Madam Mayor, members of the City Council on behalf of Housing, I would like to voice my strong support for staff's recommendation and the selection of the Brookfield Properties Catalyst Development Team. Staff provided Mid-Penn meeting, building features and Operation Dignity with the opportunity to review the proposals. Although Alameda Point Collaborative recused itself from reviewing the proposals due to conflict of interest, the remaining collaborating partners provided feedback and ensured that the selected team has the capacity to complete the needed infrastructure work. We were impressed by the thoughtfulness of the Brookfield Cattell proposal and we look forward to working with them to revise our vision of rebuilding the existing supportive housing and creating a vibrant new community. Alameda Point Thank you for taking this important action that is the critical next step to move, reshape forward as quickly as possible. The only the.
Speaker 1: You are. All right. Now, we have no further public comment with that. I'm closing to have a comment. And Miss Councilmember Odie, back to you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'll be really brings. But I don't want the public to know that even though we may not talk a lot about this, we've all given a lot of thought to this. I mean, we had four developers come as finalists that staff could not recommend a while back, and I couldn't even pick between them . And we had a subcommittee and, you know, the two people that we did want to move forward fell through. But two of the other finalists, you know, are the two that are still here today. So they've gone through this not once, but twice. So I appreciate that they hung in with us. And I'm glad that we not.
Speaker 0: Only.
Speaker 4: Didn't have to choose between them, but now that we're going to get the best of both worlds and that they're going to be joining forces. And between their equity and their experience and their know how. I think we're going to have a really great project and I'm proud to move. A recommendation of the staff report selecting Brookfield Properties Catalyst team developed the West mid-May project at Alameda Point, an authorized city manager negotiating DNA with the team consistent with the form of the included in the request for qualifications.
Speaker 1: Let's have a second and then some discussions, then seconded by Councilmember Ortiz, seconded by Councilmember Vela. Councilmember de. So give your hand that.
Speaker 4: It's just a quick comment. I just want to say through the RFQ process, I appreciated how certain concepts that Councilmember Odie and myself had raised were included in that. Councilmember O'Day, for example, raised the notion of that the developer will build in financial and market flexibility into the project, and that's in the RFQ. And then I had raised the notion of wanting to see how the developer, what kind of plans that they have with regard to achieving social justice goals. So as we move forward and the specific plans, I look forward to seeing how those are fleshed out.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor, anything from you? Briefly.
Speaker 3: I will just say that I am excited to see this moving forward to Councilmember Otis Point because of all the thought, you know, just making sure it's clear, you know, there are lots of reasons we want to see this moving forward. The RESHAPE program that this will support, I think is another one. Also, one of the two folks that we're moving forward has had by far the best tagline of the entire RFQ process here. So do we know your dirt? I have never forgotten that. And you know what? Marketing wins, I guess.
Speaker 1: And and for me, I am just so pleased to see this move forward. This the reshape neighborhood has been such an important, integral part of what we do so well in Alameda. We when the Navy base closed, we didn't say that we would pay money to have homeless individuals not in our backyard. We said, nope, we'll we'll provide housing. Now, all these years, it's been not that most ideal housing, but yet roofs overhead. And we've sheltered many families and individuals in need and we continue to do so. But I'm very I'm very pleased to to support this. And I think all of your comments just really capture the important work that we.
Speaker 0: Are.
Speaker 1: Moving forward with now. And as I have said, more than once, this COVID 19 crisis has only highlighted our state, the Bay Area's dire need for more housing. So let's get moving on this as quickly as possible. So we've had a motion, we've had a second move. We have a roll call vote, please.
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Speaker 1: Lovely.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Michelle and Debbie.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Well, that is.
Speaker 1: Good work. And and thank you to the team. Congratulations. We very much look forward to seeing this project move forward. And thank you to the team, Ms.. Giles and Ms.. Potter. Ms.. Butler is there to our good job. And going through all these applications and this subcommittee to council member already counts them every day. So. Good work, everyone. We're staying up for, don't you think?
Speaker 0: And that sort of thing?
Speaker 1: Of course. Okay. We'll keep moving forward because we got a little more time. And so we move from six siege to city and city manager communications or get rid of the consent calendar.
Speaker 0: 39 889.
Speaker 4: I think there's a deadline on that.
Speaker 1: There's a deadline on. Okay. City manager, do you have communications? But you need to meet yourself.
Speaker 3: I don't have any critical communications for tonight. All I was going to talk about was the pandemic and just some warning or some potentially critical, I mean, advice to the residents as far as keeping social distancing and being safe.
Recommendation to Select the Brookfield Properties/Catellus Team to Develop the West Midway Project at Alameda Point and Authorize the City Manager to Negotiate an Exclusive Negotiation Agreement (ENA) with the Team Consistent with the Form of the ENA included in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ). (Base Reuse 819099)