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CLEVELAND — Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald announced today that the county website now provides access to numerous construction and management contracts relating to the Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center project as well as public presentations and historical documents.

“The public wants to know about the Medical Mart and the county is going to continue to expand the number and types of Medical Mart documents it posts on the county website,” said FitzGerald. “I am not aware of another major, local construction project that has shared contracts and agreements to this extent”.

The new documents are primarily in the areas of “Construction Administrative Agreement (CAA) and Definitive Agreement” and “Leases, Financing and Other Operational Documents.” Many of these documents are in excess of 100 pages, so viewers are encouraged to review them before printing them. The posting includes:

CAA and Definitive Agreement:

• Construction Administration Agreement by and among The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio, Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. and MMPI Cleveland Development LLC, dated as of January 7, 2010
• First Amendment to Construction Administration Agreement by and among The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio, Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. and MMPI Cleveland Development LLC, dated as of December 1, 2010
• Agreement Regarding Final Project Finance Approval by and among The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio, MMPI Cleveland Development LLC and Cleveland MMCC LLC, dated as of December 1, 2010
• Definitive Agreement by and between The County of Cuyahoga and The City of Cleveland, dated as of November 18, 2010
• Side Letter Regarding Post-Closing Items by and between The City of Cleveland and County Administrator, dated December 28, 2010

Leases, Financing and Other Operational Documents:

• Sublease and Operating Agreement by and between The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio and Cleveland MMCC LLC, dated as of December 1, 2010
• Reciprocal Access and Mall Easement Agreement by and between The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio and The City of Cleveland, dated December 29, 2010
• Joint Facility Use Agreement by and between The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio and The City of Cleveland, dated December 29, 2010
• Project Funding Agreement by and between The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio and MMPI Cleveland Development LLC, dated as of December 1, 2010
• Leasehold Mortgage, Assignment of Leases and Rents and Fixture Filing by and between MMPI Cleveland Development LLC and The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio, effective as of January 1, 2011
• Lease Agreement by and between The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio and Cleveland MMCC LLC, dated as of December 1, 2010
• Agreement (Bed Tax Agreement II) by and between The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio and The Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland, Inc. d/b/a Positively Cleveland, dated as of December 1, 2010
• Memorandum of Understanding by and between Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. and The Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland, Inc. d/b/a Positively Cleveland, dated as of October, 2010
• Memorandum of Sublease and Operating Agreement by and between The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio and Cleveland MMCC LLC, dated as of December 21, 2010
• Memorandum of Lease by and between MMPI Cleveland Development LLC and The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio, dated as of December 21, 2010
• Memorandum of Ground Lease by and between The County of Cuyahoga, Ohio and MMPI Cleveland Development LLC, dated as of December 21, 2010

The county will continue to add documents to its Medical Mart webpage as they become available. “The county is interested in finding new ways to inform residents about county projects and efforts,” said FitzGerald. “Although some these newly posted documents are very technical in nature, we believe that making them available is critical to establishing the background of the project.”