Req. # 1 0081
RESOLUTION NO. 36225
1 WHEREAS, in 1999, because the City's Business Systems Improvement
2 Project ("BSIP") required the short-term use of office space to provide interim
3 office space for employees and project members involved with the BSIP, the
4 City Council adopted Resolution No. 35561, authorizing the execution of a
5 lease/option to purchase, the option to purchase, and other documents
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necessary and incidental to and for the lease and purchase of the Carlton
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8 Center and parking garage, located at 1551 Broadway, and
9 WHEREAS the City exercised that option and purchased the Carlton
10 Center for $3.7 million, and
I I WHEREAS the BSIP project was complete in 2003, but the Carlton
12 Center currently provides offices for the City's Business and Information
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Systems Department, and
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WHEREAS the Carlton Center also currently provides offices for
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16 employees and contractors assigned to the new Tacoma Convention Center
1 7 ("Convention Center") project and the staff of the Convention Center itself, and
18 WHEREAS, in 2003, the City Council expressed to staff an interest in
19 selling the Carlton Center building, and
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WHEREAS the City desires to retain the associated parking garage,
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which is currently valued at $1 million, for future expansion of the Convention
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23 Center, and
24 WHEREAS the City has received an offer from Fred Roberson to
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