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A RESOLUTION
Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a
Redevelopment Agreement for 1210-1238 Chicago Avenue
By and between the City of Evanston and
TR Chicago Avenue Partners, L.P.,
WHEREAS, the "Developer" TR Chicago Avenue Partners, L.P., (the "Developer")
Developer is the contract purchaser of certain real estate commonly known as 1210-28
Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois (the "Developer Parcel") and legally described on
Exhibit A of Exhibit 1 hereto. The City owns certain real estate commonly known as 1234-
1238 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, also described as Exhibit A of Exhibit 1 hereto
• ("City Lot #60"), adjoining the Developer Parcel. City Lot #60 is presently used by the City
as a municipal parking lot; and
WHEREAS, under the City of Evanston Zoning Ordinance, the Developer submitted
a planned development application and proposed to develop the ground below and air
rights above City Lot #60 together with the Developer Parcel as a single, mixed -use
planned development. After due notice and the holding of a public hearing before the Plan
Commission of the City in case ZPC 00-3, the Plan Commission recommended approval
of the .Developer's proposed planned development. The Developer's application for
planned development was then submitted to, and approved by, the City Council of the City
with certain modifications, in Ordinance 43-0-00, adopted by the City Council on April 11,
• 2000. The Developer's project, as described in Developer's documents, testimony and
exhibits offered in support of its application, and as modified in the foregoing ordinance,
is herein called the "Planned Development"; and
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WHEREAS, to implement the Planned Development, the Developer proposed to
purchase City Lot #60, on the condition that the construction of a seven -story residential
condominium building over such lot (such building is identified in the Planned Development
as "Building D") will include a permanent reservation of rights by the City to continue using
the ground floor area of Building D for municipal parking.
WHEREAS, accordingly, the City has agreed, subject to and on the terms and
conditions set forth herein, to convey all of City Lot #60 to the Developer, excepting that
certain air space parcel above City Lot #60 (lying between certain horizontal planes) as will
be required for the City's ownership, operation and maintenance of the proposed ground
floor parking facility in Building D: the air space parcel lying within such defined horizontal •
planes will be legally described and depicted on the "Survey" to be attached as Exhibit B
hereto and is herein referred to as the "City Air Space Parcel". The parties shall mutually
direct the surveyor to fix the approximate locations of the lower and upper horizontal planes
defining the City Air Space Parcel to correspond to the floor and ceiling surfaces of the
ground floor within Building D. The balance of City Lot #60 (i.e., City Lot #60 less the City
Air Space Parcel), as will be legally described and depicted on the Survey, is herein
referred to as the "Sale Parcel". The Developer Parcel and the Sale Parcel are herein
sometimes collectively referred to as the "Condominium Property".
WHEREAS, the corporate authorities of the City, after due and careful
consideration, have concluded that the development of the Condominium Property and Air
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• Space Parcel, as provided in this Agreement, will further the growth of the City, improve
the environment of the City, facilitate the goals and objectives of the Chicago Avenue
Corridor Report, recently adopted by the Plan Commission, and the Comprehensive Plan
of the City, increase the assessed valuation of the real estate situated within the City,
increase the sales tax revenue realized by the City, foster increased economic activity
within the City to control the development of the Property and otherwise be in the best
interests of the City; and
WHEREAS, the development of the Condominium Property and Air Space Parcel,
including the fulfillment generally of this Agreement, are in the vital and best interests of
the City and the health, safety and welfare of this residents and taxpayers,
0 NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to
sign, and the City Clerk hereby authorized and directed to attest on behalf of the City of
Evanston, a Redevelopment Agreement for 1234-1238 Chicago Avenue by and between
the City of Evanston and TR Chicago Avenue Partners, L.P., as a single mix -used planned
development, attached hereto as Exhibit 1.
SECTION 2: That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to
negotiate any additional terms of the Agreement as may be determined to be in the best
interests of the City.
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SECTION 3 That this Resolution shall be in full force and effect from and
after its passage and approval in the manner Provided by law.
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ATTEST:
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Adopted: _._'� Z- �- , 2000
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