Title
GRU Master Plan (NB)
Explanation
The City Commission has established a goal of creating a master plan for the area surrounding Depot Park, including the potential GRU development site. The majority of the Depot Park/GRU area lies within the College Park University Heights, Downtown, and Eastside CRA areas, and the redevelopment of the GRU/Depot area will be crucial to the success of the CRA and the surrounding areas. Therefore, the City Commission agreed to make the CRA the lead agency on this project. Additionally, representatives of GRU and City Planning staff have participated on the consultant evaluation team and will also be included on the project team as work goes forward. Each of the CRA Advisory Boards involved with this project (Downtown, Eastside, and College Park/University Heights) have included funding as part of their FY 2007 budgets. The amount of funding from each district is based on how much of each redevelopment area falls within the study boundary. As portions of the project area do not fall within any CRA district, both the general government and GRU are also participating in funding. The funding breakdown is as follows: CRA is funding $85,000 ($50,000 from CPUH, $25,000 from Downtown, and $10,000 from Eastside.) GRU is funding $25,000, and general government is funding $25,000 (to be paid from the Community Development Department through savings from personnel vacancies).
The RFP was issued on November 3, 2006 with a deadline for receipt of January 19, 2007; a pre-bid meeting was held on December 1, 2006. Ten proposals were received with one being disqualified for lack of pricing. A meeting to evaluate and rank the written proposals was held on February 16, 2007. The four top ranked firms were: Folsom Group, Genesis Group, Pizzuti Solutions and Wood & Partners, Inc. Oral presentations were held on March 20, 2007. Wood & Partners, Inc. was selected for the proposal. The initial project kick-off me...
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