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Approve a five-year Lease Agreement between the City of Clearwater Police Department and Intercultural Advocacy Institute for the police sub-station vacant space located at 1498 South Martin Luther King Jr Ave, Clearwater, FL and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same.
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SUMMARY:
The City of Clearwater Police Department (CWPD), through its dedicated efforts to serve its residents, acknowledges and wishes to express sincere gratitude to the former tenant of the substation, the Community Dental Clinic, for its past public services, and much future success, having now relocated to a larger owned location where they will continue to serve the residents of Clearwater.
The departing City tenant, Community Dental Clinic (CDC), in early June 2025, gave proper notice to terminate its Lease Agreement at the shared CWPD substation located at 1498 S Martin Luther King Jr Ave. The CDC on August 8, 2025, vacated the leased space without issue.
The current City tenant at 612 Franklin St., Intercultural Advocacy Institute (HOC), has requested to vacate from its current location due to the mutual needs of the CWPD to repurpose its property, and HOC’s need for additional space, and relocate to the substation property previously leased by CDC. HOC has since properly terminated its current lease and has executed a new lease with CWPD. All necessary relocation maintenance has been completed.
The base terms of this Lease Agreement: five-year term, $1.00 annual rent, utilities paid by HOC, insurances paid by HOC, and emergency CWPD approved use conditions.
City Legal, CWPD, and PW/Eng departments have reviewed and approved this request.
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