Speaker 1: Report from Economic and Property Development Public Works Recommendation to execute a ground lease with 100 LLP LBB Real Estate for approximately 475 square feet of public right of way on the north side of East First Street between Long Beach Boulevard and Avenue District to.
Speaker 0: Keep vice mayor.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I wanted to also share my appreciation here. I really do appreciate the spirit in which this item has come forward. As I mentioned with the previous item, it's really important for us to activate the divide between our downtown core and the East Village in order to multiply our economic growth. But more than that, really, in order to provide a sense of downtown community that we have. And and I know that there is a lot to look forward to when we bring two strong economic cores together. But I think for us as Long Beach and for us as downtown Long Beach, it matters most what the spirit of the community is. And I think that is a greater accomplishment. We'd like to thank our development services team, Cliff, John and Richard for your hard work and creativity as well as our staff that's here tonight that's been working on this for quite some time, too. Thank you, Mr. Conway, and your team. I appreciate that. I recognize that we've asked for some not necessarily unusual things, but things that would really make the pedestrian scape much more interesting on First Street. And I want to thank the team for making that happen. It's easy to ask, but it is a lot harder to put it together by both sides. And I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Councilman Gonzales. Did Mr. Carmody do everything to add to that on this item?
Speaker 2: Nothing really of merit. I think the vice mayor has adequately or articulately articulated that we do need to activate First Street to bring people from Elm to downtown and vice versa. And we think this is a great way to activate that section of her street.
Speaker 1: Mr. Mayor. Yes? May I ask Mr. Conway just to briefly describe what's happening? Because if you walk there, not today necessarily, but when if when you had walked there, before you saw concrete or cinderblock or whatever it is you saw. Could you describe what we are looking to see once this is done?
Speaker 2: Yes, I'd be happy to. The the the elevations of the sidewalk.
Speaker 6: Dining area is pretty.
Speaker 2: Impressive. They've got sitting.
Speaker 0: Area.
Speaker 2: In front of the. First of all, it's a raised platform. So it's at the level of the the garage floor of the Edison building. And so it's a visual attraction from Elm Street and from Long Beach Boulevard and downtown as well. But you can see people that are at the the sidewalk dining area. You can see them from quite a distance seated on the outside and brings about seven feet into the sidewalk area. They have a lift for ADA access, which is pretty unique in sidewalk occupancy that I've seen and I think very sophisticated design that is very well related to what they've done in the Edison building itself. So I think we'll be very pleased with the architectural design and the eventual economic impact.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Let me go to the court of public comment. Any public comment, Kate, seeing. Let me before we vote, I just want to want to make sure it's important to clear up. I know it was brought up, but I just want to make sure we note for anyone that watching is this property as well as a variety of other properties that have been involved in whether they're being sold or there's a development agreement. There actually is a process that we go through that the city goes through to actually dispose of these properties. And it's all been laid out over the last few years through the property management plan that's been approved by the state of California and the governor. And so when redevelopment dissolved, the city went forward and divided up different properties depending on where they were at in the process. So it was either a parcel that had to go for sale to the highest bidder, like Mr. Goodhew is suggesting. There's other properties that go through a development process with staff and there's even an additional category. And so I just wanted to make sure I don't know Mr. West, if you wanted to add to that, but there is actually a pretty extensive process that every property goes through, depending on where it's at in in the in the plan that the governor has approved or. Mr. Conaway, if you wanted to add to that.
Speaker 2: Be happy to. Yes. The long range property management plan pretty well sets forth the requirements on how it disposition takes place in all of these properties. Some of them are for sale, some of them are future development. We have segregated a portion in the long range property management plan that allows the city to proceed with negotiations that were ongoing when the redevelopment agency was dissolved. And this is one of those instances where the developers were in near complete negotiations with the redevelopment agency at the time. So when our long range property management plan was approved back on March 10th of this year, we reached out again to the developers and continued to proceed down the negotiation path. And they've been very cooperative. We've gotten what was essentially a fair market value for the property, and so we've brought this forth to City Council for their approval consistent with a long range property management plan.
Speaker 0: Great. Thank you. See no other public comment. Members, please go ahead and cast your votes.
Speaker 1: Motion carries.
Speaker 0: Thank you. We've moved forward on those two items. Thank you all. Good luck to the team. I know there's going to be a a process that begins now as well with the community on on part two of this project. So we appreciate that. Let me go and do we're going to go back to to the to public comment and then we're going to go to some other items we're moving forward on the agenda. So. Mr. Lurch. Former Vice Mayor Vallas.
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary for a Ground Lease between the City of Long Beach and 100 LBB Real Estate, LLC, a California limited liability company (100 LBB), for approximately 475 square feet of public right-of-way (Leased Premises), on the north side of East 1st Street between Long Beach Boulevard and Elm Avenue.  (District 2)