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Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager, or Designee, to Negotiate and Execute an Agreement in the Amount of $350,000 with Brookfield Bay Area Holdings LLC and/or Catellus Development Corporation to Advance Design and Development of Backbone Infrastructure for RESHAP (Rebuilding Supportive Housing at Alameda Point). (Community Development 819099)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On March 9, 2020, the City Council approved a $350,000 appropriation for the RESHAP Project Backbone Infrastructure Design as part of the mid-year budget update to advance infrastructure design and construction documents for the backbone infrastructure necessary to support the RESHAP Phase 1 area. This report recommends authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a $350,000 contract with Brookfield Bay Area Holdings, LLC (Brookfield) and/or Catellus Development Corporation (Catellus), who are jointly developers of the West Midway project, to perform the work consistent with the scope of work discussed below and attached as Exhibit 1. Part of the determination in moving forward with the $350,000 appropriation was to use this as an advance of the funding with the potential to have it reimbursed as a component of the West Midway development.
BACKGROUND
On March 9, 2020, the City Council authorized staff to issue a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the development of the West Midway Project. At the same meeting, the City Council considered three alternatives to support and facilitate the advancement of the RESHAP project, 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. The City Council appropriated $350,000 as part of the mid-year budget to advance the design and preparation of construction documents for the bac...
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