Item B: Review of West Broadway Request for Qualifications Responses

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· Developing Cascade Station by Portland International Airport with major office and retail components. . Nyberg Woods retail center in Portland area under construction. · One suggested use in Eugene proposal was cinema with dinner theater concept. · A true RFQ response---..~No detail about the scale or which properties would be involved. Submitted qualifications---Indicated mix of uses that would include retail; housing in partnership with qualified housing developer; cinen1a; potentially office uses. . Would assume project would have a strong retail component based on their historic area of focus. . Issues with theCenterCal Properties concepts: o Difficult to identify issues because of lack of detail for the concept: how would parking be treated for retail and potential housing? Staff responded to comments from the committee. . Would CenterCal be at a disadvantage because it followed a traditional RFQ response compared to other responders? o Response: Was truly anRFQ response and could be viewed as any of the other responses. One of the original partners in the Bridgeport deal and bought out other partners. Details of the transaction not known" . Uneasy about relation betweenRFQs and RFPs. Judgments w.ould be made in selecting developer at least in part on redevelopment experience. CenterCal had not said anything substantial about redevelopment concepts. It had equity and good intentions-but no concept. o Response: Need to make decision based on the criteria adopted by the City Council, and the development concepts were one of those six elements. All of the groups that submitted information had strengths in some areas and weaknesses in others. The redevelopment concepts could change through the process. . Not sure ofCenterCal's role in the Bridgeport project. Was the developer good at developing or good at purchasing developments at the end of the projects? o Response: CenterCal's roots were in acquiring shopping centers, has grown into developing projects from the ground up. Gretz Brvant . Localdeveloper..-.-owns Tango Center on .Broadway. . Developer'sTesponse submitted as video for review. . Basic concept was that the City wotlld purchase and retain ownership of the half blocks along the south side of Broad\vay, and Greg .Bryant 'would work to contract out with existing tenants who \votlld organize to fill the spaces with activities, with the theory that if the spaces were fined, they would activate the street. . Issues with the Greg .Bryant con.cepts: o Ability and willingness of the City to become the long term. owner of the properties. 1~hat would require the City to purchase all of the properties that \\tere identified in Greg Bryant'8 proposal. MINUTES- Eugene Redevelopm.ent Advisory Committee February 23, 2007 13age