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City resumes payments to Dry Creek


After not making payments since 2017, Bridgeport will pay back around $54,000 to a local developer that helped bring Brookshire’s to the city.

Under a 380 agreement, the city made payments to Dry Creek for several years until 2017. The payments stopped due to a hitch in the agreement that required Dry Creek to submit verified sales tax data to the city from Brookshire’s Grocery, the lone occupant of the development.

Monday, the council approved an amended contract 3-0 to circumvent Brookshire’s, so the city could acquire the sales tax information through the state comptroller.

“We owe it to them to work with them to get this done,” said Bridgeport Mayor Randy Singleton. “The city has benefited greatly from Brookshire’s grocery store.”

Bridgeport executed a 15-year agreement with Bucky Monashagian’s Dry Creek Development in 2008. The Bridgeport Brookshire’s was unable to provide individual sales tax data, which according to city manager Chester Nolen, had to go through Brookshire’s corporate office. Dry Creek was unable to get that information from Brookshire’s to send it to the city and a three-year impasse ensued.

“The company is being stonewalled on getting the information themselves,” Singleton said. “The way the contract is written we can’t pay them the money they deserve.”

City attorney Rob Allibon said the amended contract designates the amount owed, roughly $54,000, as well as the mechanism for acquiring the sales tax information. The agreement goes through 2023, even if the full amount hasn’t been paid back from the city, Allibon said.

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