HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution Fort Worth Housing Finance Corporation (FWHFC) FWHFC-2017-15RESOLUTION NO. FWHFC-2017-15
FORT WORTH HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION
RESOLUTIONS AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF LAND LOCATED AT 1960
WESTERN CENTER BOULEVARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HEIGHTS
AT WESTERN CENTER APARTMENTS AND ENTERING INTO A LONG TERM
GROUND LEASE WITH TX WESTERN CENTER 2018 LTD FOR THE LAND
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth ("City") created the Fort Worth
Housing Finance Corporation (the "Corporation") in 1979 pursuant to the Texas Housing Finance
Corporations Act, to facilitate housing initiatives in the City, including but not limited to issuing
tax exempt bonds, developing, rehabilitating, and promoting housing, and assisting low to
moderate income City citizens in acquiring quality, accessible, affordable housing through lending
and construction activities;
WHEREAS, the Board of the Corporation has approved an agreement with Generation
Housing Development, LLC ("Generation"), a Texas corporation, to develop The Heights at
Western Center apartments, an approximately 195-unit mixed income multifamily housing
development to be located at 1960 Western Center Boulevard (the "project"). Generation will
apply for 2018 Non -Competitive (4%) Housing Tax Credits from the Texas Department of
Housing and Community Affairs ("TDHCA") as well as multifamily revenue bonds from the
Tarrant County Housing Finance Corporation ("Tarrant County HFC") to finance a portion of
the costs of the project;
WHEREAS, the Corporation has agreed to participate in the project by creating TX
Western Center 2018 GP LLC, a Texas limited liability company (the "GP"), a single purpose
entity to serve as general partner of TX Western Center 2018 Ltd, a Texas limited partnership
(the "Partnership"), that will own and operate the project. The Board has also approved various
actions relating to the creation and operation of the GP and other actions necessary for the
development of the project;
WHEREAS, the Corporation will be the Sole Member of the GP;
WHEREAS, an affiliate of Generation has entered into a purchase and sale contract to
acquire 12.69 acres of land, more or less (the "Land"), on which the project will be constructed
and operated and will assign said contract to the Corporation;
WHEREAS, the Corporation desires to acquire fee ownership of the Land and, as
Landlord, desires to enter into a Ground Lease with the Partnership whereby the Partnership will
have a tenant's leasehold estate in the Land;
WHEREAS, the Partnership desires to enter into a Ground Lease with the Corporation
whereby the Partnership will have a tenant's leasehold estate in the Land;
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WHEREAS, the Board of the Corporation desires to authorize the acquisition of the Land
and enter into a long term ground lease with the Partnership for the Land.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
THE FORT WORTH HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION:
CONVEYANCE
RESOLVED, that the Corporation is authorized to negotiate, approve, execute, accept and
deliver an assignment of the purchase and sale contract for the Land from Generation or an affiliate
of Generation in order to acquire fee ownership of the Land;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Corporation is authorized to negotiate, approve, and
accept a deed conveying fee ownership of the Land to the Corporation and to negotiate, approve,
execute and deliver all related property transfer documents, including any assignments,
certificates, affidavits, documents, instruments, agreements, consents, statements, and various
other writings and documentation of every nature whatsoever, including title company documents,
as the Corporation may deem advisable, necessary, desirable, or required for such conveyance
(collectively, the "Conveyance Documents"); and that the Conveyance Documents in each and
every respect are approved and authorized;
GROUND LEASE
RESOLVED, that the Corporation is authorized to lease the Land to the Partnership;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Corporation, as landlord, is authorized to negotiate,
execute, and deliver a Ground Lease for a period of up to 99 years by which the Land shall be
leased by the Corporation to the Partnership, as tenant, and a Memorandum of Lease in recordable
form, and to negotiate, execute and deliver all other documentation of every nature whatsoever as
the Corporation may deem advisable, necessary, desirable, or required for such lease (collectively,
the "Lease Documents"); and that the Lease Documents in each and every respect are approved
and authorized;
ALL CLOSING DOCUMENTS AND AUTHORITY
RESOLVED, that the Corporation, in connection with all actions authorized in these
Resolutions, and related transactions contemplated thereby, is authorized to negotiate, approve,
execute, and deliver the Conveyance Documents, the Lease Documents, and all such agreements,
affidavits, security instruments, notes, assignments, financing statements, documents, instruments,
consents, applications, certifications, and other writings of every nature whatsoever as the
Corporation deems necessary to consummate the closing of the transactions contemplated by these
resolutions (collectively, the "Closing Documents"), and the Closing Documents in each and
every respect are approved and authorized;
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FURTHER RESOLVED, that Fernando Costa, the General Manager of the Corporation,
or Aubrey Thagard, the Assistant General Manager of the Corporation, or their duly appointed
successors, or in the absence of such officer, any other duly elected officer of the Corporation
(each, the "Executing Officer"), are each hereby frilly authorized to negotiate and approve the
terms of and to execute and deliver the Closing Documents and other documents for and on behalf
of the Corporation;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Executing Officer is hereby authorized and directed for
and on behalf of, and as the act and deed of, the Corporation to take such other action in the
consummation of the transactions herein contemplated and to do any and all other acts and things
necessary or proper in furtherance of the transactions contemplated by these resolutions, as the
Executing Officer shall deem to be necessary or desirable, and all acts heretofore taken by the
Executing Officer to such end are hereby expressly ratified and confirmed as the acts and deeds of
the Corporation;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that all of the actions, documents, correspondences, recordings,
instruments, or other writings that are necessary, advisable, or desirable in order to carry out the
foregoing resolutions, and for the conveyance and leasing of the Land, and the development of the
project, for and on behalf of the Corporation, its approval of each to be conclusively evidenced by
its execution thereof, are hereby approved;
FURTHER RESOLVED, that, to the extent any of the actions authorized by these
resolutions have already been taken by the Corporation or Fernando Costa or Aubrey Thagard,
such actions are hereby ratified and confirmed as the valid actions of the Corporation, effective
as of the date such actions were taken.
RESOLVED, that these resolutions shall take effect on the date of their adoption.
ADOPTED December 5, 2017.
FORT WORTH HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION
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