October 13, 2025 Mayor Lana Negrete, Mayor Pro Tem Caroline Torosis, Councilmembers Jesse Zwick, Dan Hall, Ellis Raskin, Barry Snell, and Natalya Zernitskaya 1685 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401 RE: October 14, 2025 City Council Regular Meeting Agenda Item 11C: Approval of First Modification to Exclusive Negotiation Agreement with Revitalization Partner Group, LLC for the Civic Center Auditorium Renovation, Programming and Operation Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers: This

by Marc Verville, October 13, 2025 Dear City Council and City Manager Chi, Re: SMCC 2025-10-14 Item 11.C. - Approval of First Modification to Exclusive Negotiation Agreement with Revitalization Partners Group, LLC (RPG) for the Civic Center Auditorium Renovation, Programming and Operation This note is to strongly urge you to select Staff Option #1, Approve a six-month extension (two consecutive 90- day periods). As staff notes, this option would continue negotiations with RPG

October 12, 2025   Dear Friend of the Civic Auditorium,   The developer group Santa Monica Forward — which advocates for more development, everywhere, all the time — just released a hit piece saying Santa Monica “deserves better” than a fully-restored Civic Auditorium at NO COST TO TAXPAYERS.   They falsely claim that making a deal with the very creditable industry leaders who want to restore the Civic (RPG) would somehow cost Santa Monica money. But the fact is, RPG has alre

reprinted from the Santa Monica Mirror, October 10, 2025 The process of restoring the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is definitely moving forward. As you can imagine, there are a complex series of steps to complete a multi-million dollar project of this scale. RPG (Revitalization Partners Group), a consortium of four major music venue operators, has completed the first step by preparing an exciting design for reactivating this historic building. They have been presenting this

June 3, 2025   Save the Civic is excited to update you on the progress being made to restore the Civic Auditorium and bring to Santa...

throughout this process there has been frequent communication between the City staff responsible for the Civic project and the RPG group,