Southeast Overtown Park West CRA unanimously approves grants, lease, $2.4M program and auditor panel

Southeast Overtown Park West Community Redevelopment Agency commissioners voted unanimously Oct. 23 to approve six agenda items ranging from historic-church repairs to vendor selections for neighborhood programming and the formation of an auditor selection committee.

The board, chaired by Chairwoman Christine King, approved a grant not to exceed $360,000 to Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Inc., for urgent repairs and rehabilitation of its property at 1723 Northwest Third Avenue; a grant not to exceed $350,000 to Green Chicken Overtown LLC to underwrite build-out costs for The Green Chicken restaurant at 350 Northwest First Avenue, Suite 130; a one-year lease (with four successive one-year renewal options) for CRA property at 480 Northwest Eleventh Street at an annual rent of $1; authorization to piggyback the City of Miami Landscape Services prequalification pool (IFP number as read into the record);…