The redevelopment agency meeting of October 15th, 2025 is called to order.

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Again, we will give everyone two minutes to speak.

Are there any members of the public that wish to address the city council at this time?

Seeing nobody, we will move on to item number four.

For possible action to approve the final minutes by reference of the regular redevelopment agency meeting of September 17th, 2025.

Is there a motion to approve the minutes?

So moved.

Please vote.

Are they working?

Motion carries.

Uh discussion for possible action regarding a resolution finding the agency reimbursement agreement between the City of Las Vegas redevelopment agency and Gonzo Madness LLC concerning the retail lease of 525 South Main Street, suite 150 is in the best interest of the public and to be in compliance with and in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the City of Las Vegas, redevelopment agency, $600,000, RDA special revenue fund, redevelopment areas one and ward three.

Um redevelopment area one, ward three, uh, Ms.

Diaz.

I understand staff would like to take uh would like this item obeyed until November 19th meeting.

May I have a motion, Councilwoman Diaz?

Yes, Madam Mayor, we're gonna hold uh agenda item five and advance until November 19th, RDA meeting.

All right, please vote on the motion.

Post motion passes.

Agenda item number six, RA-27-2025.

Discussion for possible action regarding a resolution finding the project proposed by the commercial visual improvement program agreement between the City of Las Vegas redevelopment agency and Sticky 9 LLC and Johnny Coco's uh located at 32 West Imperial Avenue to be in compliance and in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the redevelopment plan and authorizing the execution of a C VIP agreement by the RDA not to exceed 25,000, RDA special revenue fund redevelopment area one, uh ward three, Miss Diaz.

Please note this item is related to council item 40, R-72-2025.

Ms.

Babsky.

Yes, good morning, Mayor, good morning, City Council members.

Dina Babski, Director of Economic and Urban Development, and I'd like to welcome our applicant, Mr.

Steve Pereira.

Welcome.

It's a pleasure.

Um let me tell you a little bit about the project.

So for your consideration today is a $25,000 VIP grant for the property located at 34 West Imperial Avenue in the heart of the RS district.

And as we know, there's just so much happening in the RS district between the retail and food of beverage places as well as the residential that's going up.

So this area is primed for just new and exciting projects.

This building, um, as you can see, is quite dilapidated.

There's a lot of uh TLC that could be applied to it.

So with uh our grant, Mr.

Prayer will be able to do so.

Some of the future uh renderings of what the of the of the improvements, uh, as you can see, there is exterior uh paint signage, uh new doors and windows.

I understand there's uh also potentially some uh security upgrades in place.

Some additional uh renderings, and I um I I think it's important to mention that this property is one block to the east from the new residential, the miles of being constructed by Cedar Street, uh, which will be open next year.

So it's really gonna be a great addition and create uh just you know uh an amazing energy for your new place.

So uh Mr.

Pereira and his team are investing $310,000.

That makes them eligible for the foot amount full full amount of $25,000 for the exterior improvements.

And with that, I'd like to let Mr.

Pereira say a few words about the project.

Right.

Thank you for having me and letting me speak a little bit.

We're we're so excited.

I mean, it's been kind of uh just a mission of ours when we moved here from California in 2010.

We moved into Newport Lofts, we kind of watched the area grow.

You know, and there was not a lot going on back in 2010.

So we just been there was one of our dreams is to kind of be a part of that, and an opportunity came up where we could just kind of add.

And we love the fact that where we sit on 32, we call it the 50-yard line.

You know, it's where everybody can come and where we can like hey, what do you guys feel like doing?

We want to be able to direct people and basically celebrate the entire arts district.

You know, I think it's a way for all of us to win.

So we're super pumped up about it.

It's a passion project, it's just me and my better half of net.

You know, we don't have a lot of investors, it's just something that we want to do, and we're gonna invest basically everything we have.

So, you know, we just we're so excited to be here, and you know, your consideration is awesome.

So thank you so much.

Uh, there are any questions or comments from agency members.

Okay.

Uh seeing none.

Is there a motion, Councilwoman Diaz?

Yes, Madam Mayor.

Um, thank you so much.

Uh you're definitely gonna be living, working, and playing uh entirely all the time in ward three, and um appreciate this investment.

I hope that passion project takes um much success uh and it grows and uh is something that you and your wife are gonna be excited and proud um to lead.

So with that, I'm gonna move to approve agenda item number six.

But please vote.

Post motion carries.

Thank you so much.

Wow.

Thank you, everybody.

Thank you, Mayor.

Best of luck to you.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

No, I uh yes, um it's a little too is there a way of slowing it down?

I don't see it at all.

So we're working on some tech technical problems right now.

Um so I will confirm that the vote passes or doesn't pass.

Okay, give me the like high wink at me or something.

Yeah, that'll work.

Agenda item seven.

RA-28-2025 discussion for possible action regarding a resolution finding the project proposed by the tenant owner participation agreement between the City of Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency and Nevada Grant Lab Inc., located at 701 East Bridger Avenue, suite 600, to be in compliance with and in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the redevelopment plan and authorizing the execution of the TOPA by the RDA not to exceed 25,000.

RDA special revenue fund, redevelopment area, ward three, Miss Diaz.

This item is related to council item 41, R-73-2025.

Uh Ms.

Babski.

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, City Council members.

Dina Babski, director of EUD.

And uh with me today is none other than Mr.

Miles Dixon, very well known in the community.

Uh he leads the grant lab, and he is our applicant for the tenant um tenant improvement program, I'm sorry.

So with that, let me tell you a little bit about the project.

This is at 701 is Bridger Avenue.

As we know, this is a staple in downtown.

This building has been here for a while.

And um, as most downtown buildings that are office, it does require quite a bit of tenant improvements in order to attract new tenants, and they are costly.

A lot of it has to do with uh even like in installing simple improvements like ADA compliance things because back in the day when these buildings were constructed, the ADA requirements were different.

So in the future you will see uh quite a few of these tenant improvement grants coming in front of you because we're finalizing our new incentive for that.

So this is just gonna be uh kind of a you know, a little nice little gateway to all of the other tenant improvements that we'll be bringing forward.

So the Nevada Grant Lab, again, a well-known community organization that supports uh I know even we work closely with the city with them uh on some of the ARPA grants back in the day.

Uh so they actually used to office out uh from a smaller office down the street, and they recently uh moved in into this building, taking up 5300 square feet, and uh as I mentioned, TIs were quite expensive.

So um I won't talk a lot about the TIs and let Mr.

Dixon talk about that, but their total renovation costs were 360,000, which makes them eligible for the full amount of 25,000.

Uh this is the building again.

Uh we can probably all recognize it in our sleep, uh, but so excited to see new tenants moving into it.

Um in the vicinity, uh it's located in the founders district, right across the street from the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts.

And so uh nice little activation, won't hurt anyone there.

Um this is the pre the pictures before, uh quite old, uh needs a lot of uh renovation, and these are some of the upgrades that Mr.

Dixon team uh were able to bring to downtown.

So uh oh that these are beautiful.

Yeah.

Um so we're very excited uh to have them stay in downtown because they weren't downtown already, but also take up a space where they actually going to have a long-term lease.

Uh the total lease term is eight years, so six plus two-year extension.

So we are very hopeful to have them here stay even beyond that.

Hi, good morning, council.

My name is Miles Six.

I'm the CEO and founder of Nevada Grant Lab.

We are a nonprofit that supports fellow nonprofits to have the resources they need to do their best work for Nevadans.

Uh as Dr.

Babsky said, we have been located in downtown.

We opened our first office uh in October of 2021 with one employee, myself.

Uh we outgrew that space and lasted past the lease, and so we're really excited to be continuing to be downtown as we started a search for where it could accommodate up to 14 full-time employees, uh public purpose training room, conference and meeting spaces.

We looked all over the valley.

Uh, I'm pretty biased.

I live downtown.

I have for a really long time.

So naturally I wanted to be here, but I was really happy when my team who drive 25 minutes or more every day to get downtown told me where they really wanted to be was downtown as well.

We know we're centrally located to support our community partners from all across the valley.

We're excited to welcome more people to our new office, our larger office in our training space in downtown.

We support local businesses every time we have an event, like yesterday and the day before.

We had 16 folks from all around the valley sitting in our training room.

You know, we like to buy local business catering and all sorts of stuff like that.

So really happy to be downtown.

I really want to acknowledge the city staff, uh Dina, Tracy, and Rich who helped us navigate this process and really appreciate the mayor and the council's consideration.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It is very nice to see you.

It's nice to see you.

Do any uh members of the agency have any questions or comments?

Oh, yes.

Thank you, Mayor.

Um, welcome.

Glad to see that you're staying here.

I have one question.

You showed a beautiful rendering of the conference room.

Is that available for nonprofits or other folks to use?

Yeah, absolutely.

The conference room as well as that training space.

We invested quite a bit to make it comfortable, but also really great AV.

So it's really set up for virtual meetings.

So folks are most welcome to the space.

They can reach out to me and our team and we'll get them a booking.

Okay.

That's good.

All right.

Um, uh, is there a motion, Councilwoman Diaz?

Um thank you, Madam Mayor, and uh thank you for continuing to um house all of your services out of downtown.

I think more than ever, this expansion is very timely.

I think nonprofits will need your expertise and guidance to figure out how to continue to scrape up funds to maintain their orgs afloat.

So super excited to help give some money back to you that hopefully will help extend more programming to our nonprofits.

So, with that, I'm gonna move to approve agenda item seven.

All right, shall we vote?

Please post.

Uh motion motion carries.

Thank you all very much.

Thank you.

Okay.

Agenda item number eight, RA-29-2025.

Discussion for possible action regarding a resolution consenting to the undertakings of the City of Las Vegas redevelopment agency to be in compliance with and in furtherance of the goals and objectives of the redevelopment plan and authorizing the execution of the second amendment to the master lease agreement between the agency and art house for LLC for the tenant improvements of a market hall, generally located at the northwest corner of D Street and Jefferson Avenue, not to exceed 8,700,000 RDA Special Revenue Fund, redevelopment area one, ward five, Ms.

Summers Armstrong.

Uh please note this item is related to council item 42, uh R-74-2025.

Uh, Miss Babsky.

Thank you, Mayor.

City Council members, Dina Babski, director of EUD.

Uh, and I'd like to welcome our uh representative from for the developer, Mr.

Grant Garcia.

Welcome.

Thank you.

So we've talked about this project for a long time now.

And I know that there's been a lot of excitement.

Uh, it is a the first largest investment uh for residential in the historic West Side.

Um, and I just wanted to give you a quick reminder on how this uh on what this project is about in general, and then uh cover what the lease amendment is for.

So it's located uh on the corner of D and Jefferson in the heart of the historic west side.

It is a mixed-use development by uh Cherry Development, and it will provide 104 workforce housing uh units, 16 and a half square feet of total retail, and of that almost 9,000 square feet specifically designated for a food hall market hall, which was the vision in the hundred plan when it was uh presented, and so we were able to take that portion and work with a developer, and they uh partnered with us uh for which we're very grateful because it is a new concept in in that area, and we're very excited to uh for the opportunities it will bring to the community.

Uh so the redevelopment agency, if you recall, entered into a 15-year lease uh you all approved last year for the food hall and the and the retail space.

Um, with that lease, uh essentially uh the redevelopment agency will be uh leasing the space, and then we will be finding subtenants for the food hall.

It will be more of an incubator space uh where new startups, uh people who want to try their Hannah, uh, you know, being uh a restaurant or a chef, uh, they'll get subsidy on the lease, and that way we'll give them an opportunity to grow, expand, and so forth.

Um, so the total uh amount on this amendment is $8.7 million.

And let me uh break it down a little bit.

Six and a half million of that is the tenant improvement portion for which the redevelopment agency is responsible for.

But what I'd like to highlight is 4.3 million of that amount will be reimbursed back to the redevelopment agency by the our partners with the housing authority and uh the federal government through the neighbor through the CNI grant that the 50 million dollar grant that was awarded for the Marble Manor redevelopment.

So um, with that grant reimbursement, we will work closely with the neighborhood services because there's a job creation component that we have to be compliant uh with.

Um, some timelines.

So the land was sold to the developer in 24.

The construction began earlier this year and will be complete uh by the end of summer of next year, and we're hoping people will be moved in in September of next year, right in time for the new school year for the students across the street at the Wetsi campus.

Um, just a little visual on where the site is.

The food hall itself will be on the northwest corner of Madison uh and D Street, that little sliver of land.

Um specifically, uh that was a city owned land that was added to the project to support the food hall development.

Um so yeah, this is just a site plan.

I'll move over to the actual market hall floor plan, which I think is very exciting.

What you see on the top uh screen is the ground floor.

There's three bays for the incubator space, as I mentioned, and then uh in the middle, the little circle area is going to be an actual bar.

So we're very excited to be able to host events there, and then the new portion that uh we haven't had before, but presenting now to you is the mezzanine.

So that's the bottom picture.

You'll see that we'll provide additional seating that will kind of oversee the sitting area and where the bar is.

Um quick reminder of how beautiful the project is, and uh, we're so excited because I know that there's a lot of activity already there happening uh now.

And I'm gonna show a quick video and then I'll let Mr.

Garcia just answer any questions.

Okay.

So this is uh literally last week, I believe was this drone video uh taken.

If you haven't driven by the area, I highly encourage you to do so.

As you can see, the our at the Wetsea Center is right across the street.

There, so this project will provide a lot of opportunities, as I mentioned, through the workforce housing uh units as well as the retail and the food hall for students to take a break, go get uh you know, get some food, hang out.

Uh so it's gonna create a real real great energy in the community.

So with that, Grant, please.

Thanks, Cena.

Uh Grant Garcia, co-founder of Cherry Development and Chair Downtown Projects.

Happy to be in front of you, all of you again.

Um first like to start off by saying thank you to Dina, the entire EUD department, all of you.

Um, without all of you, uh the hard work, the effort, and the time that's been put into this project over the last I think three years now.

Um, we wouldn't be where we're at, as you can see by the video.

About a month ago, we were just framing in the ground floor retail space, and as you can see along D Street, we've got a fully topped-off building.

Um, that's 16 brand new apartments that are going in along D Street.

When you drive by, uh, the synergy there is pretty awesome.

And uh and um we're super excited for the project.

The rest of the building is gonna be fully topped off in about a month.

Um, so uh hopefully we'll be able to give some hard hat tours coming up here soon, and we're gonna invite all of you to come out and be able to walk the building and see it firsthand, and uh just again the synergy that's happening between our project and CSN.

We're super excited for it.

Um so with that, happy to answer any questions and um and thank all of you.

Thank you, Mr.

Garcia.

Are there any questions or comments from the agency members?

Miss Summers Armstrong.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Uh, we were at Ethel Pearson Park on Saturday doing a cleanup, and I could see the building from Ethel Pearson.

Amazing.

And I can tell you that it is so exciting, the synergy and what is happening in the neighborhood.

Um, and people are excited about what is happening.

Um, I'm excited about what is happening.

I can't wait to have a Pepsi with lots of cherries at the bar.

Um in this new location, and just the opportunity for growth and creating a space where people want to go is amazing, and I'm excited.

And so um, unless there's any other comments, Madam Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve.

All right, please vote on the motion post.

Motion carries.

Uh, thank you so much and congratulations.

Thank you.

Agenda item nine.

Citizen participation, public comment during this portion of the agenda must be limited to matters within the jurisdiction of the redevelopment agency.

No subject may be acted upon by the redevelopment agency unless that subject is on the agenda and is scheduled for action.

If you wish to be heard, come to the podium, give your name for the record.

The amount of discussion on any single subject as well as the amount of time uh will be limited to two minutes.

Is there anyone wishing to speak under this portion of the agenda?

Seeing nobody or hearing none, uh, this redevelopment agency is adjourned.

We will start our city council meeting promptly at 9 a.m.

Thank you so much.