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Execution of Architectural Services Agreement with Little Diversified Architectural Consulting Ltd. for the Redevelopment of Two Downtown Sites (300 and 500 blocks of East Main St.) Project No. 4730DC138
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Date of BOCC Meeting: March 12, 2018
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The Board is requested to authorize the County Manager to enter into a contract with Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, Ltd. (Little) of Durham to provide architectural services for the Redevelopment (Massing Studies/Conceptual Layouts) of Two Downtown Sites, located at the 300 and 500 Block of East Main Street, Durham, in the amount of $104,280.00 plus a rendering, cost estimating, printing and expenses allowances in the amount of $6,000.00 thus totaling a not to exceed amount of $110,280.00 (See Attachment 1, Pages 1-4).
Durham County is seeking to re-develop two (2) County-owned sites just east of the downtown core. A contract was executed on June 29, 2017 with the UNC School of Government's Development Finance Initiative (DFI) for a multi-phase pre-development process for the 300 and 500 blocks of East Main St. Over the past several months, DFI has held numerous meetings with the County and community stakeholders to develop draft Guiding Public Interests to facilitate a vision and preliminary programming scope for these two sites based on the input received during these listening and feedback sessions.
The UNC School of Government's Development Finance Initiative (DFI) will be exploring multiple, mixed-use development scenarios for new construction on these two sites in order to determine the costs and benefits of these options for the County and its stakeholders. To this end, DFI requires architectural services to advise on the opportunities and constraints of these desired scenarios, which may involve retail, residential, office, parking, and civic uses. These development scenarios will also consider project context with the surrounding are...
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