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Providing preliminary approval for a proposal for a financing program for a multi-family rental housing development, giving preliminary approval to the project and the program pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 462C, authorizing the Housing and Redevelopment Authority to issue housing revenue bonds and authorizing the preparation of necessary documents and materials in connection with said project and program (Schmidt Brewery Project), District 9.
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(a) Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 462C (the "Act") confers upon cities, or housing and redevelopment authorities or port authorities authorized by ordinance to exercise on behalf of a city the powers conferred by the Act, the power to issue revenue bonds to finance a program for the purposes of planning, administering, making or purchasing loans with respect to one or more multi-family housing project developments within the boundaries of the city;
(b) The Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "HRA") has been designated, by ordinance, to exercise, on behalf of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "City") the powers conferred by Minnesota Statutes, Section 462C.01 to 462C.081;
(c) The Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the "HRA") has received a proposal from St. Paul Leased Housing Associates IV, Limited Partnership, a Minnesota limited partnership (the "Borrower"), that the HRA undertake a program (the "Housing Program") to finance the Project hereinafter described, through the issuance of housing revenue bonds or notes in an estimated principal amount not to exceed $66,000,000 pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 462C (the "Bonds");
(d) The Project to be financed by the Bonds is the acquisition and renovation of two existing historic buildings commonly known as the "Brew House" and the "Bottle House" of the Schmidt Brewery. The buildings will be renovated into 248 affordable housing units;...
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