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File #: 25-665   
Status: Agenda Ready
In control: PORT EVERGLADES DEPARTMENT
Agenda Date: 5/20/2025 Final action: 5/20/2025
Title: MOTION TO APPROVE First Amendment to Lease Agreement between Broward County, as landlord, and Chiquita Fresh North America L.L.C., as tenant, retroactively extending the lease term through October 31, 2026, adding one two-year option term, setting the applicable rates, and adding auditing rights and miscellaneous provisions; and authorize the Mayor and Clerk to execute same.
Indexes: Established Commission Goals
Attachments: 1. Exhibit 1 - First Amendment to Chiquita Lease Agreement, 2. Exhibit 2 - Map
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Broward County Commission Regular Meeting
Director's Name: Joseph Morris
Department: Port Everglades Division: Business Development

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Requested Action
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MOTION TO APPROVE First Amendment to Lease Agreement between Broward County, as landlord, and Chiquita Fresh North America L.L.C., as tenant, retroactively extending the lease term through October 31, 2026, adding one two-year option term, setting the applicable rates, and adding auditing rights and miscellaneous provisions; and authorize the Mayor and Clerk to execute same.

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Why Action is Necessary
Multi-year lease agreements and amendments thereto require Broward County Board of County Commissioners' approval.

What Action Accomplishes
Approves the First Amendment to the Lease Agreement between Broward County, as landlord, and Chiquita Fresh North America L.L.C. as tenant, retroactively extending the lease term through October 31, 2026, adding one two-year option term, setting the applicable rates, and adding auditing rights and miscellaneous provisions.

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Previous Action Taken
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Summary Explanation/Background
THE PORT EVERGLADES DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDS APPROVAL.

This action supports the Broward County Board of County Commissioners' ("Board") Value of "Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives," and the Goal of "Ensuring economic opportunities and a sustainable economy, with an emphasis on Broward's lower and middle class."

Since 2004, Chiquita Fresh North America L.L.C. ("Chiquita") has operated a ripening, storage, and distribution center for bananas located at a Port-owned warehouse in the Southport area of Port Everglades (see Exhibit 2) under successive lease agreements. The most recent agreement, approved by the Board on February 7, 2023 (Item No. 12), retroactively provided for a three-year term ending on October 31, 2024. In January 2024, the parties bega...

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