TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute any and all documents necessary for the Second Amendment to Lease
No. 29422 with SRE-OW 100 Broadway Owner, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, for office space at 100 West Broadway, Suites 400 and 550, for the continued use by the Department of Development Services, Neighborhood Services Bureau. (District 2)
DISCUSSION
On March 15, 2011, the City Council authorized the execution of the First Amendment to Lease No. 29422 (First Amendment) between Danari Broadway, LLC, predecessor-in-interest to Lessor, and the City of Long Beach (Lessee), for approximately 23,518 rentable square feet (RSF) of office space at 100 West Broadway, Suites 400 and 550 (Leased Premises). The purpose of the First Amendment was to extend the lease to continue housing the Neighborhood Services Bureau (NSB), which included the Code Enforcement Division (CED) as well as relocate other NSB administrative and program staff from another building to the adjacent 5th floor to provide one-stop convenient access to the public from a single location. The First Amendment provided for an extended term of approximately 78 months and recently expired on October 31, 2017, with the lease currently being on a month-to-month holdover tenancy.
The Leased Premises continue to house the administrative and program staff of the NSB and the staff of the CED, which both play a vital role in maintaining and improving the quality of life in the City’s neighborhoods, commercial corridors and industrial areas. CED is responsible for the enforcement of the Long Beach Municipal Code as it relates to substandard buildings, property maintenance, inoperative vehicles, weed abatement, and land use violations. To this end, CED proactively conducts inspections on major corridors, in selected community code enforcement areas, and in residential buildings containing four or more units.
The NSB staff at the Leased Premises will be relocate...
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