SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: Res 31628

• Record No: Res 31628
• Version: 2
• Type: Resolution (Res)
• Status: Adopted
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Clerk
• On agenda: 11/23/2015
• Title: A RESOLUTION relating to the Seattle Center Department; expressing support for a $5,000,000 payment to the Seattle Opera for enhancements or other public benefits to the renovation or replacement of the Mercer Arena.
• Sponsors: Nick Licata
• Supporting documents: 1. Summary and Fiscal Note, 2. Summary Att A - Site Map, 3. Signed Resn_31628.pdf

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/1/2015	2	City Clerk	attested by City Clerk
12/1/2015	2	Mayor	returned
12/1/2015	2	Mayor	Signed
11/30/2015	2	City Clerk	submitted for Mayor's signature
11/23/2015	1	City Council	adopted	Pass
11/16/2015	1	Select Budget Committee	adopt as amended	Pass
10/26/2015	1	City Council	referred
10/20/2015	1	City Clerk	sent for review
10/13/2015	1	Mayor	Mayor's leg transmitted to Council

CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION _________________

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A RESOLUTION relating to the Seattle Center Department; expressing support for a $5,000,000 payment to the Seattle Opera for enhancements or other public benefits to the renovation or replacement of the Mercer Arena.
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WHEREAS, the Seattle Center Century 21 Master Plan ("Plan") is a 20-year management plan that contains Planning and Design Principles to guide redevelopment at the Seattle Center and encourages the use of public/private partnerships as one method to achieve redevelopment; and
WHEREAS, the Plan envisions that McCaw Hall and the Mercer Arena will be the permanent home for the Seattle Opera ("Opera"), including the location of administrative, rehearsal, and technical support facilities for the Opera. The Plan also envisions accomplishing the goals of the Theatre District Plan to enhance the vitality of performing arts venues along Mercer Street; and
WHEREAS, the Opera is a world-renowned performing arts organization that has presented arts programming that greatly enhance the cultural and economic life of the City; and
WHEREAS, the Opera requires a permanent home for its administrative, rehearsal, and technical support functions, and its planned Mercer Arena project is integral to the success of the Plan, the Seattle Center Theatre District, and the surrounding Uptown Urban Center; and
WHEREAS, the City and the Opera entered into a ground lease for the Opera's use of Mercer Arena and Seattle Opera began paying rent for use of the Mercer Arena on June 30, 2014; and
WHEREAS, the Mercer Arena has been closed since 2003 due to seismic and code compliance deficiencies and currently produces no public benefits, and that although the Arena redevelopment to be undertaken by the Opera under the terms of lease will improve the facility, additional enhancements to the Arena will provide additional benefits to the City's facility and to the vitality of the Seattle Center; and
WHEREAS, the...