TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary for the Second Amendment to Lease No. 29995 between Long Beach Center, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and the City of Long Beach for the relocation of City-leased office space to 420 Pine Avenue, Suite No. P-100, for the offices of certain veterans’ organizations; and
Authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary to amend Sublease No. 30276 with the Arthur L. Peterson Post No. 27, Inc., The American Legion, Department of California; and Sublease No. 30277 with Long Beach Chapter No. 17, Disabled American Veterans, Inc. (collectively, Subtenants), for the sublease of City-leased office space at 420 Pine Avenue, Suite No. P-100. (District 1)
DISCUSSION
By an agreement dated January 16, 1936 (Agreement), the City of Long Beach (City) and the County of Los Angeles (County) joined together to construct the Veterans’ Memorial Building (Original Building) at 245 West Broadway, at Pacific Avenue, for the exclusive use and benefit of the Subtenants generally identified in the recommendation above. The City contributed the land, and the County contributed the funding for construction of the Original Building. The Agreement required that the City be given exclusive jurisdiction over the management, operation, control, maintenance, upkeep, and repair of the Original Building. In 1952, the State Attorney General opined that the Agreement created an easement benefiting the Subtenants, thereby obligating the City to maintain a facility for the Subtenants until they formally abandon said easement.
On October 28, 1975, the City Council approved an Agreement for Exchange of Real Property (Exchange) with the State of California (State), whereby the State conveyed a parcel of land at 332 West Broadway, at Cedar Avenue, to the City for the construction of the four-story Broadway Parking Garage. In exchange, the City conveyed the land and the Original Building at 245 West...
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