Metro - File #: 2019-0575

• File #: 2019-0575
• Type: Project
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 7/19/2019
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 7/25/2019
• Title: CONSIDER: A. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the City/County of Los Angeles for funding and support of the Destination Crenshaw Project; B. APPROVING funding request for the construction of Destination Crenshaw's proposed Sankofa Park in an amount not to exceed $15,000,000 and related staff support time; and C. AMENDING the FY20 Adopted Budget in the amount of $15,000,000.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Budgeting, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Construction, Contractors, Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project, Metro Exposition Line, Metro Rail C Line, Project, San Fernando Valley subregion, Strategic planning, Zoning
• Related files: 2020-0582, 2019-0600

Meeting_Body
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
JULY 25, 2019

Subject
SUBJECT: SUPPORT OF DESTINATION CRENSHAW PROJECT ON METRO OWNED PROPERTY ALONG THE CRENSHAW/LAX LINE PROJECT

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the City/County of Los Angeles for funding and support of the Destination Crenshaw Project;

B. APPROVING funding request for the construction of Destination Crenshaw's proposed Sankofa Park in an amount not to exceed $15,000,000 and related staff support time; and

C. AMENDING the FY20 Adopted Budget in the amount of $15,000,000.

Issue
ISSUE

Metro's Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project (C/LAX) is one of 12 transit projects funded by Measure R, with a projected opening in 2020. A total of $2.058 billion in funds have been allocated for this project.

While transportation project investments often spur positive economic development and expand access to opportunity, these investments can also have the unintended result of gentrification and displacement that can disrupt the culture and character of a neighborhood. Promoting community preservation and economic mobility of the communities directly affected by Metro's investments is an agency imperative. Consistent with this objective is Destination Crenshaw, a proposed outdoor museum and placemaking initiative ("Museum") that takes form as 10 major project elements - platforms or parks - along the 1.3-mile section of Crenshaw Boulevard, that overlaps an at-grade running segment of the C/LAX project.

Destination Crenshaw has proposed the enhancement of three Metro-owned properties, which were anticipated to receive modest improvements as part of the C/LAX project. In 2015, the Board directed the preparation of a C/LAX Joint Development Strategic Plan which identified these three properties as "exploratory sites" that could potentially be considered for disposition to support...