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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to enter into a Grant Agreement with Community Hospital Long Beach Foundation, a Long Beach-based nonprofit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000, for reimbursement of predevelopment costs incurred by the City of Long Beach to rebuild and replace buildings located at 1720 Termino Avenue, 1760 Termino Avenue, and 4111 East Willow Street (Subject Property), to continue to operate an acute care hospital at the site; and
Adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement with Perkins + Will, a private for-profit corporation in Los Angeles, CA, for hospital facility architectural design and consulting services, in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000. (District 4)
DISCUSSION
On July 3, 2018, the Subject Property, commonly known as Community Hospital, was returned to the City of Long Beach (City). On June 19, 2018, the City Council authorized certain actions related to the Subject Property including the execution of an Exclusive Negotiating Agreement with MWN Community Hospital, LLC, a California limited liability company (MWN), while the feasibility of a lease and potential development could be determined. City staff have been working with MWN, the State of California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), and architectural and engineering consultants to conduct extensive review of the operational, engineering, and financial plans needed to bring the Subject Property into seismic compliance.
To support the City’s efforts to continue to provide an acute care hospital facility at the site, the Community Hospital Long Beach Foundation (Foundation) has offered the City up to $1,000,000 in grant funding reimbursements for predevelopment architectural planning and consulting costs, conditioned upon the City executing an agreement with MWN to operate an acute care hospital. The funds, if the condition is met, will benefit the City by assisting w...
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