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Recommendation to: 1) Direct Staff to Conduct a Four-Week Request For Qualifications (RFQ) Solicitation Process for the Development of the West Midway Project; 2) Approve Debbie Potter, Community Development Director; Michelle Giles, Base Reuse Manager; Lisa N. Maxwell, Assistant City Attorney; and Eric Levitt, City Manager, as Designated Real Property Negotiators for the West Midway Project; 3) Approve the Finding that the West Midway Project is not subject to the Surplus Lands Act as Amended; and 4) Direct Staff to Include a $350,000 Appropriation for the RESHAP Project Backbone Infrastructure Design in the Mid-Year Budget. (Community Development 819099)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The West Midway Project is a 32.5-acre mixed use development site that consists of a market-rate opportunity site (Market Rate Site) and a 9.7-acre consolidated affordable housing site (RESHAP Site). The Market Rate Site is a 22.8-acre mixed-use project that includes 291 residential units and commercial uses, construction of all required backbone and in-tract infrastructure improvements for the property and all of the required backbone infrastructure for the adjacent RESHAP Site. The RESHAP project is a 267-unit, 100% affordable housing development being built by Alameda Point Collaborative, Operation Dignity, and Building Futures with Women and Children (collectively, the Collaborating Partners) and Mid-Penn, a non-profit affordable housing developer. This project is subject to the RESHAP Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) with the City. The Market Rate Site and the RESHAP Site (the West Midway Project) collectively include 558 units, of which 48% are affordable to very low- and low-income households, commercial uses and backbone and in-tract infrastructure improvements.
Staff recommends that the City Council direct staff to conduct a four-week Request for Qualifications (RFQ) solicitation process for the develop...
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