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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO: Arthur Noriega V DATE: April 22, 2022
City Manager
FROM: Marie Gouin _N SUBJECT: ARPA Allocation of $2,000,000 to
Office of Manager ent Director Bakehouse Art Complex, Inc., from the District 5
Commission Office - Four Fifth Waiver
BACKGROUND
The City of Miami ("City") received American Rescue Plan Act funding to address COVID-19 and
its impact on public health as well as address economic harms to households, small businesses,
nonprofits, impacted industries, and the public sector.
Bakehouse Art Complex (Bakehouse) is the only artist -purposed, non -profit -owned site of its
kind and size in Miami's urban core. It plays a major role in addressing a significant gap in the
city's cultural ecosystem, affordable spaces where artists can create, live, and engage with each
other and with the greater community. As real estate prices continue to rise, and with it the
need for affordable work and living spaces for artists, it has the potential to leverage its land
holdings in a way that can significantly increase the organization's impact. The redevelopment
of Bakehouse ensures artists and art making will have permanence in city whose real estate
costs render this increasingly challenging.
Due to the unique aspects of the Bakehouse addressing the need of the art community by
providing a space where artists can create, it would be advantageous for the City to expedite
the allocation and waive procurement requirements at this time. The Bakehouse Art Complex
will undertake repairs and renovations to the structure and envelope of the organization's
existing building including addressing and upgrading electrical infrastructure, structural repair
and remediation, life -safety issues, making necessary repairs needed for the Forty -Year
Recertification process, roof replacement, installing hurricane -impact window upgrades,
updating building technology, and ensuring compliance with current building codes.
RECOMMENDATION
In light of the above stated, approval of a waiver of the formal requirements of competitive
sealed bidding methods as not being practicable or advantageous to the City as set forth in the
City Code of Ordinances, as amended, specifically Section 18-85 (A), and the affirmation of
these written findings and the forwarding of the same to the City Commission for ratification by
aJ6!if�fTftfisvqte is respectfully requested.
APPROVEDIDI$APPROVED
Art Norma V, City Manager