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Costco participation agreement: commitments and delivery

Trace the participation agreement, funding conditions and completed public improvements.

Overview

Review the public participation agreement and related appropriations, reimbursements and project acceptance. Match payments to the agreement’s conditions.

Source notes

EDA authorization and its published amount are distinct from executed terms and actual payments. The cited traffic condition belongs to the gasoline-station conditional-use permit; the records reviewed do not independently establish its application to the entire warehouse, construction completion or acceptance. The attached TIA executive summary contains recommendations and forecasts, not measured post-opening results.

5 of 5 reviewed records. Source links and release indexes are identified separately from archived copies.

Timeline

Dates follow the cited records; document dates are labeled separately.

  1. March 7, 2025

    EDA authorizes participation agreement

    The EDA authorized execution of a Costco participation agreement concerning transportation and infrastructure near Jefferson Avenue and Bland Boulevard, and potential incentives, subject to legal counsel review and approval. The minutes do not provide the final agreement or its dollar amount.

  2. June 10, 2025

    Gasoline-station permit includes a pre-occupancy traffic condition

    Ordinance 8075-25 grants the gasoline-station conditional-use permit CU-2025-0003. Condition 5 requires the applicant to complete the April 2025 traffic-study road and signal improvements before issuance of a certificate of occupancy. Completion and acceptance require separate evidence.

News story

No resulting news story is currently linked and published.

Open questions

Records still needed (2)
  • Executed agreement and amendments

    Signed EDA–Costco participation agreement, counsel-approved final terms and amendments, eligible-cost and incentive schedules, and reimbursement requests and approvals.

    Likely custodian: Economic Development Authority; Development; Finance

    The March authorization and annual-report amount do not establish the operative contractual conditions or the reimbursable scope.

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  • Payment and acceptance

    Itemized invoices and payment ledger, approved improvement plans and amendments, traffic-improvement inspection and acceptance records, and certificate-of-occupancy records addressing the gasoline-station conditional-use permit CU-2025-0003 and its condition 5.

    Likely custodian: Engineering; Planning; Codes Compliance; Economic Development Authority; Finance

    Match any payments with approved eligible work and verify the completion condition in the gasoline-station permit. No broader warehouse-occupancy conclusion is drawn from this record alone.

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