Number
150147
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY
Title
Substitute resolution approving Amended and Restated Reciprocal Operating and Easement Agreement for Miller Park, accepting water and sewer easements, accepting Clybourn Street right-of-way, and authorizing preparation of an assessor’s plat for the Miller Park area.
Analysis
After construction was completed on the Miller Park baseball stadium there were a number of real estate issues that needed to be resolved including establishing easements for the City’s public water and sewer facilities located within the Miller Park parking lots, granting right-of-way to the City of Milwaukee for a portion of Clybourn Street and clarifying the lot lines within the Miller Park stadium complex.
In 2003, when the Redevelopment Authority acquired the land east of Miller Park that was developed into the Menomonee Valley Industrial Center (“MVIC”), there was already recorded on title a 1998 Reciprocal Operating and Easement Agreement (“1998 ROE Agreement”) between the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club (“Brewers”), the Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District (“Baseball District”), the State of Wisconsin and the former owner of that land that established certain ring road maintenance responsibilities between those parties. As the current owners of this land, the Redevelopment Authority, the City of Milwaukee and all of the business owners in the MVIC are now subject to the 1998 ROE Agreement which requires owners of this land to pay 75% of all maintenance and capital expenses related to the Miller Park ring roads east of 44th Street. When parcels in the MVIC were sold, the buyers were told that the City would take on the responsibility of paying the expenses under the 1998 ROE Agreement.
As a result of a package negotiated among the Brewers, the Baseball District, the State, the MVIC property owners, the Redevelopment Authority and the City, an Amended and Restated Reciprocal Operatin...
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