STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Housing & Homelessness Solutions
AGENDA DATE: February 22, 2023
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): 13
DEPARTMENT: Department of Housing & Neighborhood Revitalization
EXECUTIVE: Majed Al-Ghafry
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SUBJECT
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Authorize the Dallas Public Facility Corporation to acquire, develop, and own Bluffview Highline, a mixed-income, multifamily development to be located at 3802 West Northwest Highway (Project) and enter into a seventy-five-year lease agreement with Urban Genesis, LLC, or its affiliate, for the development of the Project - Estimated Revenue Foregone: General Funds $582,585.00 (15 Years of Estimated Taxes)
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BACKGROUND
Urban Genesis, LLC (Applicant), a Texas Corporation, submitted an application to the Dallas Public Facility Corporation (Corporation) for the development of Bluffview Highline, a 175-unit mixed income multifamily development to be located at 3802 W Northwest Highway (Project). The Corporation will own the site and improvements and lease the Project back to the Applicant or its affiliate. Pursuant to the Texas Public Facility Corporation Act, Chapter 303 of the Texas Local Government Code, as amended (Act), any public facility owned by a Public Facility Corporation is exempt from all ad valorem taxes. To qualify as a public facility, pursuant to the Act, a multifamily property must reserve at least 50% of the units for residents earning at or below 80% of the area median income (AMI). The Project will reserve 40% of the units for residents earning less than 80% AMI, 10% of the units for residents earning less than 60% AMI, and 50% of the units will be market rate.
The Applicant will be a limited liability company owned by Urban Genesis, LLC. Urban Genesis is a Texas-based real estate development and construction company that has acquired and is actively developing a portfolio of roughly 5,000 units of multifamily properties. This includes various workforce and affo...
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