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AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE RELOCATION AGREEMENT FOR DICK’S SPORTING GOODS TO RELOCATE INTO THE LEE’S SUMMIT EAST (SUMMIT FAIR) TAX INCREMENT FINANCING REDEVELOPMENT AREA.
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Key Issues:
This ordinance is a companion to the other item on the agenda, and the proposed motions, related to the relocation of Dick’s Sporting Goods.
• Dick’s Sporting Goods (“Dick’s”) is an approximately 30,700 square foot store that is currently open in the Summit Woods Shopping Center.
• RED Development (“Developer”) has requested that the City allow the relocation of Dick’s into the Summit Fair Shopping Center, for the construction of a new approximately 50,000 square foot store. Dick’s desires the new location in order to stay in the City and operate in a larger store.
• Developer’s proposed schedule would have the new Dick’s store open in Summit Fair in the 1st quarter of 2017 and then close the Summit Woods store immediately thereafter.
• The Summit Fair TIF Contract (Section 19.D) provides that a store which is currently open in the City may not be relocated into the Summit Fair TIF redevelopment area without permission of the City Council.
• Developer requests the Council’s permission for the store relocation. Developer proposes a contractual arrangement with the City by which Developer will guarantee a payment to the City in an amount equal to the projected City sales tax revenues from a new store opening in the vacated Summit Woods space over a period of two years from the date that the Dick’s store closes. Developer assumes that a new business in the prior Dick’s Sporting Goods location would generate $291,600 in City sales tax revenues over a two year period, which is 80% of the average sales currently being generated by tenants in the Summit Woods Shopping Center. Two years after the current Dick’s Sporting Goods store closes, the City will calculate the actual sales tax revenues generated by any business that opens...
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