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HomeMy WebLinkAbout25716AGREEMENT INFORMATION AGREEMENT NUMBER 25716 NAME/TYPE OF AGREEMENT 8TH STREET PROPERTIES, LLC DESCRIPTION AMENDED & RESTATED DISBURSEMENT AGREEMENT/ESSENCE MIAMI/FILE ID: 17577/R-25- 0174/MATTER ID: 24-3219/#76 EFFECTIVE DATE August 7, 2025 ATTESTED BY TODD B. HANNON ATTESTED DATE 8/7/2025 DATE RECEIVED FROM ISSUING DEPT. 8/14/2025 NOTE AMENDED & RESTATED DISBURSEMENTAGREEMENT FOR 8TH STREET PROPERTIES, LLC (NIIAMI FOREVER BOND FUNDS) This Amended and Restated Disbursement Agreement for Miami Forever Bond funds ("Amended Disbursement Agreement") is made as of this -1 day of Pt ¶ 2 v sue, 2025 by and between 8TH STREET PROPERTIES, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (hereinafter the "Project Sponsor"), and the CITY OF MIAMI, a municipal corporation of the State of Florida (hereinafter the "City"). RECITALS WHEREAS, the Project Sponsor is developing a project known as Essence Miami (the "Project"), that will increase the supply of rental housing units for Low- and Moderate -Income Households in the community; and WHEREAS, on July 30, 2021, the City's Housing and Commercial Loan Committee approved an allocation of Miami Forever Bond ("Bond") funds in the amount of five million dollars and zero cents ($5,000,000.00) to the Project Sponsor for certain Project construction hard costs; and WHEREAS, on November 15, 2024, and as amended on May 20, 2025, and June 25, 2025, the City's Housing and Commercial Loan Committee approved a seven million dollars and zero cents ($7,000,000.00) increase in Project funding, comprised of $5,390,000.00 in Miami Forever Bonds funds and $1,610,000.00 in Public Benefits Trust funds, from five million dollars and 00/100 ($5,000,000.00) to twelve million dollars and 00/100 ($12,000,000.00) to the Project Sponsor for the Project construction hard costs (the "Bond Funds") of which up to four million and 00/100 Dollars ($4,000,000.00) will be used for Up Front Construction Costs (the "Up Front Construction Costs"); and WHEREAS, the funding commitment of the City to the Project Sponsor for the Bond Funds is more fully described in that certain Miami Forever Bond Loan Agreement of even date herewith (the "Amended Loan Agreement"); and WHEREAS, the Project Sponsor and the City desire to establish the mechanism whereby the Project Sponsor will apply to receive the Bond Funds; NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the Project Sponsor's construction and development of the Project and the reciprocal agreements set forth herein, the Project Sponsor and the City agree as follows: ARTICLE I DISBURSEMENT PROCEDURE 1.1 This Disbursement Agreement establishes the conditions to the City's obligation to loan the Bond Funds to the Project Sponsor. The Project Sponsor may not request disbursement of funds pursuant to this Amended Disbursement Agreement until such funds are needed for the reimbursement of eligible costs. Provided the City is obligated to disburse the Bond Funds pursuant to the Amended Loan Agreement, the City will disburse such funds in accordance with this Article I. 1.2 The Project Sponsor shall submit draw requests for the Bond Funds, which draw requests will be submitted not more frequently than one (1) time per month. The City shall not fund any draw request in an amount that exceeds the City's initial contribution percentage of the entire development cost of the project. The Project Sponsor will submit or cause to be submitted the following documentation to the City: Page 1 of 6 (a) Up Front Construction Costs: Upon the closing of the senior loan, requests for disbursement in an amount up to $4,000,000.00 of the Bond Funds may be disbursed to Project Sponsor subject to compliance with the requirements as set forth in Article I of this Amended Disbursement Agreement. Requests for Up Front Construction Costs shall not need to satisfy the City's initial contribution percentage requirements but shall remain subject to the delivery of such information and documents as the City may require as set forth in Article I of the Disbursement Procedure and the Loan Agreement, including without limitation, pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Loan Agreement. (b) Hard Costs: (i) A Request for Disbursement, in a form acceptable to the City, setting forth such details concerning construction of the Project as the City shall require, including: the amount paid to date to the General Contractor constructing the Project (the "Contractor") and pursuant to the contract for the construction of the Project between the Project Sponsor and the Contractor (the "Construction Contract"); the amounts, if any, paid directly by the Project Sponsor to subcontractors of the Contractor and material men; the amount then currently payable to the Contractor, broken down by trades; the amounts paid on account of the Contractor's construction fee; and the balance of the construction costs which will remain unpaid after the payment of the amount currently payable. (ii) Any Request for Disbursement must be submitted to the City by no later than the thirtieth (30th) day of each month. Each Request for Disbursement must be signed by the Project Sponsor, the architect for the Project, and the Contractor. (iii) Applications for receiving Bond Funds for reimbursement of hard costs will include such architectural documents as the City may require. The City Inspector, as described in Section 1.3 hereof, shall be required to certify with each draw request: the amount of work on the Project that has been completed; the good and acceptable workmanship of the Contractor and its subcontractors; compliance with approved final plans and specifications of the Project; and such other matters as the City may require. Lien waivers/releases shall be submitted to the City Inspector for review and approval before each disbursement. If the City requires that its title insurance policy be updated, the Project Sponsor shall also submit to the title insurance company all lien waivers/releases in connection with each proposed draw. All costs associated with the title insurance company updating the title insurance policy shall be paid by the Project Sponsor. (c) OMITTED (d) Such other information and documents as the City may require. 1.2.1 Each Request for Disbursement shall constitute a representation and certification by the Project Sponsor and the Contractor to the City that: (i) The materials have been physically incorporated into the Project, free of liens and security interests, and that the construction of the Project to date has been performed substantially in accordance with the drawings and specifications and in a first- class workmanlike manner; (ii) All governmental licenses and permits required by the Project as then completed have been obtained and are available for inspection by the City; (iii) The Project as then completed does not violate any law, ordinance, rule, regulation, or order or decree of any court or governmental authority; and (iv) No Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and tl l ere is no continuing default under the Construction Contract. Page 2 of 6 (v) The Project Sponsor, the Contractor and each subcontractor has complied with all applicable Federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to labor standards and with HUD Handbook 1344.1 where applicable. (vi) OMITTED (vii) Each item for which reimbursement is requested in a Request for Disbursement is properly chargeable as a capital expense for federal income tax, accounting and state law purposes. 1.3 The City Inspector will review the work that is incorporated into the Project and for which each Request for Disbursement of the Bond Funds is submitted. The City Inspector will review and approve the final plans and specifications for the Project and will review and approve the draw requests based on the percentage of work completed. The City Inspector's reviews, approvals, and conclusions shall be for the sole benefit of the City. All construction change orders must receive the prior written approval of the City Inspector. Change orders that have not received the prior written approval of the City Inspector shall not be approved for payment/ reimbursement by the City. 1.4 Within ten (I0) working days of its receipt of a Request for Disbursement delivered pursuant to Section 1.2 hereof and without attempting to verify the completeness of same, the City will notify the City Inspector of the need to inspect the progress of construction work at the Project (the "Notification") and shall forward to the City Inspector the Request for Disbursement that has been delivered by the Project Sponsor. 1.5 The City Inspector shall complete its inspection and submit its report to the City within five (5) business days of receipt of the Notification. 1.6 If the City finds the materials submitted by the Project Sponsor and the report of inspection by the City Inspector to be satisfactory to the City and in accordance with the Amended Loan Agreement, the City shall fund to the Project Sponsor the sum requested by the Project Sponsor or such lower sum as the City deems appropriate. 1.7 The City shall fund disbursements of the Bond Funds by no later than fourteen (14) business days after it has received both the Request For Disbursement, in the form required by Section 1.2 hereof, and the inspection report of the City Inspector, in the form required by Sections 1.2 and 1.3 hereof, provided that all necessary documentation is complete and correct. 1.8 The City shall retain five percent (5%) of the Bond Funds allocated to the Project Sponsor's hard costs (the "Allocation Retainage") until it has received confirmation that the project has been issued a Certificate of Occupancy or Temporary Certificate of Occupancy, and at the Project Sponsor's sole cost, a Final Cost Certification prepared by an independent certified public accountant, both in form and substance acceptable to the City. 1.9 The City reserves the right to refuse to fund any disbursement request(s) in the event that the City determines that the Project and/or the Project Sponsor are not in compliance with any local, state or federal law or requirement. 1.10 Disbursements for other than hard costs, if permitted pursuant to the Amended Loan Agreement, shall be made in accordance with the City of Miami Department of Housing and Community Development Disbursement of Funds Checklist. Page 3 of 6 ARTICLE II MISCELLANEOUS 2.1 This Agreement may only be amended in writing by all the parties hereto. 2.2 This Amended Disbursement Agreement, the Amended Loan Agreement and the other documents executed by the parties in connection therewith constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto and no other agreements or representations, unless incorporated in this Amended Disbursement Agreement, shall be binding upon any of the parties hereto. All capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings provided in the Amended Loan Agreement. 2.3 In the event litigation, arbitration, or mediation, between the parties hereto, arises out of the terms of this Amended Disbursement Agreement, each party shall be responsible for its own attorney's fees, costs, charges, and expenses through the conclusion of all appellate proceedings, and including any final settlement or judgment. 2.4 This Amended Disbursement Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same Amended Disbursement Agreement. The parties shall be entitled to sign and transmit an electronic signature of this Amended Disbursement Agreement (whether by facsimile, PDF or other email transmission), which signature shall be binding on the party whose name is contained therein. Any party providing an electronic signature agrees to promptly execute and deliver to the other parties an original signed Amended Disbursement Agreement upon request. [Signatures on the Following Pages] Page 4 of 6 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amended Disbursement Agreement has been executed by the Project Sponsor and the City on the date first above written. WITNESSES: STATE OF FLORIDA } } COUNTY OF MIAMI-DADE } PROJECT SPONSOR: 8th Street Properties, LLC, a Florida limited liability company Title: Man::er Date: Q)-/7$/L • ACKNOWLEDGMENT The foregoing instrument was acknowle ged before me by means of /physicalO presence or online notarization this aqj day of,- , 2025 by Nuri Dorra, as Manager, of 8' Street Properties, LLC, a Florida limited liability company, who is personally known to me or has produced as identification. Print N Notary P . blic, State of Florida at -large Page 5 of 6 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amended Disbursement Agreement has been executed by the Project Sponsor and City on the date first above written. ATTEST: odd B. City Clerk ( pfoa5 Date: APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS: George 44 song III, sq City Attorney 32 CITY CITY OF MIAMI, a municipal corporation of of the State of Florida By: fec e Arthur Noriega V. City Manager Page 6 of 6