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Resolution Approving the Decertification of the Penfield Redevelopment Tax Increment Financing District and the Termination of the Development Agreement with Penfield Apartments LLC, District 17, Ward 2.
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WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners of the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (“HRA”) has heretofore established the Saint Paul Neighborhood Redevelopment Project Area (the “Project Area”) and has adopted a redevelopment plan therefor (the “Redevelopment Plan”) pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Sections 469.001 to 469.047, as amended; and
WHEREAS, said Redevelopment Plan contains an identification of need and statement of objectives and program of the HRA for carrying out of a redevelopment project, including property to be acquired, public improvements to be provided, development and redevelopment to occur, and sources of revenue to pay redevelopment costs within the Project Area; and
WHEREAS, on June 21, 2006, the City Council of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (the “City”), and on June 28, 2006, the HRA approved the creation of the Penfield Redevelopment Tax Increment Financing District (a redevelopment district) (the “TIF District”) and adopted a tax increment financing plan therefor and on February 15, 2012 the City, and on February 22, 2012, the HRA, approved the amended and restated tax increment financing plan for the TIF District (as further amended, the “TIF Plan”); and
WHEREAS, it has been proposed that the HRA decertify the TIF District as of October 14, 2016; and
WHEREAS, the TIF District will only be decertified on October 14, 2016 if the Penfield Apartments LLC (the “Developer”) terminates the Development Agreement entered into with the HRA on June 20, 2012 (the “Development Agreement”) in connection with the sale of the Project (as defined in the Development Agreement).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of the Authority, as follows:
1. TIF District Decertified. Contingent...
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