Civic Partners Stockton v. The City of Stockton CA
This case -- the subject of prior appeals and a bankruptcy stay -- deals with redevelopment contracts entered in May 2000 between plaintiff Civic Partners Stockton, LLC (Civic) and defendants City of Stockton (City) and Redevelopment Agency of the City of Stockton (Agency). On our own motion we take judicial notice (Evid. Code, § 459) that, following the legislative dissolution of redevelopment agencies, the City of Stockton has become the Agency’s successor. (City Resolution No. 11-0251, Aug. 23, 2011, implementing Stats. 2011, 1st Ex. Sess. 2011-2012, chs. 5-6.) Since the pertinent events occurred before dissolution, we use the term “Agency” to avoid confusion.
In the operative “FOURTH AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR RESTITUTION,” Civic claims the City and Agency breached contracts for Civic to redevelop a hotel building, instead gave the project to new developers, and transferred to them Civic’s development plans and partnership agreement with a third party to market tax cre
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