Community Redevelopment Agency - Regular Meeting

Of the CRA special meeting of no workshop to order

chair burns here vice chair market

here

deputy vice chair Cassell here commissioner Carney and commissioner Long?

Here.

Okay. Are approval of the minutes. Agenda. Approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion? So moved.

Second? Second.

Vice Chair Markert? Yes. Deputy Vice Chair Cassell? Yes. Commissioner Carney? Commissioner Long?

Yes.

And Chair Burns? Yes.

Okay so we are at the October power point for presentations Renee yes okay so thank you all so at the October 28 CRA board meeting we presented an item regarding the rfq for CRA number 202501, Northwest 800 Block, West Atlantic Avenue progressive design build redevelopment project. So at the time we presented an item to award this project to the top ranked proposer and the board decided that they would like to have presentations and tabled that item to our meeting at the October. So this workshop today is to allow everyone to present. We, you know, we'll have twenty minutes for each presenter, ten minutes for questions, and then we'll have a little bit of time at the end for us to discuss the next step. But basically we'll be bringing back this item at the October to vote.

So today is really just listening to the presentations and asking questions if you

would like

to. Alright. So we have our first presenters. I think we can start. I believe they're all in here.

So you can sit up there.

Alright. So the presenters can sit right up here. There's a clicker for you or you can use the podium, whichever is more comfortable for you. Okay.

We'll go here. Is there a timer or

We'll keep the time. So you'll have twenty minutes. Okay.

Yeah. I'll go up here. So

the first presentation is from DMR Construction Services Inc.

Okay.

Thank you. Okay. Okay. Good afternoon, mayor, commissioners, members of the CRA. My name is Brian Herbert.

I'm here representing DMR and GHA design build team. We are located at 210 Southeast 2nd Street here in Delray Beach. I'd like to introduce our team, the GHA DMR design build team. DMR is a Delray Beach based construction manager who specializes in municipal, commercial, and projects. We self perform work with in house estimators, architects, engineers, project man and project management staff.

GHA adds over thirty five years of design build experience to this team with extensive experience in city, CRA, and recreational facilities. Where's the I don't have my slides up. Oh, click. Okay. Sorry. There we go. There we go. I have five items to go through. They're listed here. Overview of the design build process, past performance, project understanding and vision, design concepts, and our process and key considerations.

The GHA DMR team is a combined design build experience of over sixty years, with projects ranging from large municipal projects to complex infrastructure projects. Designing and building spaces. We have over 5,000,000 in the active pipeline, value engineering. We do this as a teamed approach throughout the process. Design build.

We're experts at design build. We have 200,000,000 bonding capacity, thirty years of experience with public agencies, and working currently with over 20 plus cities. We do modular. We're also experienced here in Delray, particularly Gulf Stream Views project, which DMR just completed recently over by the beach. Additionally, we have three plus other projects in the process.

We're very familiar with your Sprab site plan approval process and building department regulations. From a recreational standpoint, we've done quite a bit of parks and recreation facilities. We're highlighting here, Peter Bluesen Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. We've also just completed, projects in Lighthouse Point, Danwitt Park, City Of Parkland, Town Of Pembroke Park. Also, we've done projects in Riviera Beach for parks.

I'd like to sort of highlight this project, John Knox Village. John Knox Village is very similar to this project in that it's a multiuse recreational facility. It has pools. It has dining. It has an outdoor cafe, an event center, pickle ball and tennis ball courts, as well as an amphitheater, all of which are elements that are also incorporated into this except the pool.

For the city of Lighthouse Point, we're currently working on their municipal complex as owners reps, and we just currently finished their fire and emergency management center, the Danwitt Park, renovations to their currently renovating their library, their building department, and their commission chambers. I'd like to introduce our team. Richard Ridicci, who's who's here. He is president of DMR Construction. And me, Brian Herbert, I am the CEO of GHA Architects.

The rest of our team is listed below. Many of them are here and will assist me with answering questions at question and answer period. Our other team members were committed to hiring Delray Beach consultants and c key subcontractors. Most of them, we already work with from MEP engineers, civil engineers, structural surveyors, as well as key subcontractors. It's a local partnership, and we truly are local.

DMR is located a five minute drive from the site, which is less than a mile. It's located at 210 Southeast. Teamed approach. So from a teamed approach, we're looking at the project incorporating Delray Beach as a team member, the SET as a team member, Delray Beach CRA as a team member, DMR, and GHA, as well as our key key subcontractors. And as I mentioned, all from Delray, so this truly is for Delray by Delray.

Our concept here is building community building community wealth, wellness, and culture. I'm gonna go through these real relatively quick. Alignment to community impact and and community impact. So we wanna be aligned with the the SET transformation plan, honoring cultural heritage while advancing inclusive growth. Community driven design.

It'll be shaped by local voices and ensure authenticity and pride. Economic uplift and local empowerment, prioritize will prioritize the set residents and businesses for subcontracting, vendor services, and specialty trades. And a sustained development will dedicate a portion of the project fees towards mentorship, training, and workforce development. I'm only hitting a few of these, but they're all in the books that you've been given so you can review it later. Community wealth building and youth empowerment.

So we're gonna create versatile multipurpose spaces that foster community pride and preserve cultural heritage. Youth mentorship programs, accessible and affordable I'll touch on that later. Prosperity and community uplift with local jobs and growth opportunities. Culture, art, and programming. Programming.

We We wanna wanna incorporate pop up kiosk in vendor spaces with plug and play setup systems, so make it easy on the the res or on the residents, the entrepreneurs, and the the vendors that are there. Affordable spaces. We wanna create a variety of sizes of spaces and affordability of spaces so everybody can participate. Rotating public art initiatives and intergenerational workshops where elders teach crafts, storytelling, and heritage traditions to the youth. Wellness and place making.

One thing we'd like to do is create heritage parkway walkways with fitness paths, distance markers, and QR codes to tell story of the history of the saddle. Family family and intergenerational activities to strengthen community bonds. This is something we don't do enough in The United States. It's intergenerational activities. And sound barriers and planting so that along the perimeter of the that we create a cohesive, tranquil environment and protect the residents that are close by because it's commercial use.

You know? Create those buffers. This is an important slide, so I'm gonna take a moment just to kinda read through it. Our intention. This is not about checking boxes or presenting empty concepts.

It's about listening deeply and honoring your voices and translating vision and meaningful design elements into to reflect heritage, value, and aspirations. So our commitment and my commitment will be to engage directly, meeting, listening, and learning so that the community voices very form the very foundation of the design. In doing so, the outcome will not just be a project, but a living legacy that reflects both the future and the heritage, a new vision for West Atlantic Avenue. My bad. Our values, we give back.

I wanna highlight a project that we're currently completing in Westland Westmoreland, Jamaica. Jamaica. It's a 150 student school, 10,000 square feet, and 2.5 acres of site improvements. It includes electrical, plumbing, emergency generator. It's all done with local contractors and local workforce. A 100% not for profit. Okay. Now the fun part. Placemaking. Every good creation starts with an idea, starts with a thought.

Thought turns to an action, leads to a movement, which creates a vision. That vision turns into a plan, and that plan becomes a place. That concept of idea of an idea in our methodology and and concept, a drop of water, that very first idea. It ripples, creating radiating ripples. Ripples are then to the effects of that idea, that thought, and that vision have created.

The set transformation plan outlines six guiding principles, all of which we've touched on in one way or another within this plan. But given our time constraint, I will touch on my favorites, community wealth building, a healthy community, and place making. So our design. This is our design sketch or in architectural terms, a parti. So our idea here was to create this image of the ripple with the event center at its center, at its impetus.

A place where residents can gather for civic meetings, concept concerts, movie nights, and more importantly, a place for poets, preachers, and playwrights to touch the hearts and empower people and our residents. From there, we can expand in ripples to the amphitheater, to the fountain splash pad in the playgrounds we've included, to a wellness path, small business incubators, shops, cafes, to the green market. And then from the site, it goes out. It goes out to the West Atlantic Street frontage. It goes out for entrepreneurial opportunities, pride of place, community building, educational opportunities, and faith based cooperation for your 34 churches in the area.

So that transformed into a site design. This is our site design with an entry gateway at the lower left hand corner at the eighth intersection of 8th And West West Atlantic. This becomes the gateway into the project for pedestrians. It's flanked on each side by food service. In the center is the event center with the amphitheater and and so forth.

We have a series of storefronts along West Atlantic. We wanna create that that image along West Atlantic of pedestrian friendly activity. Individual shops, we've included a rooftop sculpture garden, splash pads and playgrounds, a covered promenade, food truck parking, and infrastructure that's in place for them to hook up to. This is our architectural floor plan. What I wanna show here is the ability for the project to be flexible.

So in the the green market, which is the lower right, a vendor can come in and they can rent a table at the cheapest level or or be there for free. Then we'll have pop up vendors along the along the promenade, flexible retail spaces and shops for vendors, and then food service flanking the entryway to the outdoor cafes and the gateway getting into the building. Let's take a view into the property. This is looking south to north. You'll see how we've emphasized the entry the pedestrian entrance into the facility or into the development.

We call that the gateway. Not only is it a gateway to our project, it also acts as a gateway to the West Atlantic Business district, which doesn't really currently exist exist at this point. Also, creating a street frontage along West Atlantic Avenue to give it that pedestrian feel. Now looking north to south, we purposely located the parking lot such that it's not seen from Atlantic Avenue. You'll see the central event center and then the radiating ripples that come out from that.

We've located a splash pad and playground for children in the safest and most convenient place for for that toward the back of the site. That also helps to buffer residential, keeping the commercial uses away from the residential aspects. Okay. Rooftop terrace. This is the rooftop terrace terrace ripple. This is my favorite. It's a place for local artists to display their works. It's a place for meditation and wellness. It is a place for heritage storytelling for the elders to teach to the youth. Next is the West Atlantic Ripple.

We've created blank walls on the the facade for artistic murals. We activate the West Atlantic Avenue frontage for pedestrian access. We want this to become a tourist destination, not just used by the residents. And we created street for on street parking as well. Splash pad ripple. It's good wholesome fun and wellness. It's a safe and secure place for children to play. As you see, we've got seating for parents to watch over them as they play. The Promenade Ripple. This is an area where the main vendors will be.

So as you see, we've got pop up vendors. We've got the green market towards the rear, the large overhang. We've got modulated business incubators, cafes, and shops. Placemaking. We want this to be a tourist destination, so we want it lively, interactive, and dynamic, as you can see from this slide.

The West Atlantic experience. Now this is a realistic rendering of looking into the site and how we anticipate the the place to be busy, and vibrant, and active, and colorful, and all those wonderful things that make a place a place. The event center experience. Again, going back to the heart of the project. A place where people to gather, learn, and be empowered.

The green market. Wellness, entrepreneurship, and wealth building will all happen here. Wholesome foods and vegetables will be sold there. I want to talk a little bit about sustainability and education. We want to minimize the community development, and I'll get into the construction methods that will do that. Accelerate a project timeline, mindful and innovative design. We wanna be sustainable, native landscaping, water features. We wanna create murals and have artistic opportunities for people in the neighborhood. Sustainable design elements, and equal eco friendly lighting. Now how are we gonna do all this?

Our process and key considerations. First and foremost, local hiring and local work workforce. So we will hire from the SET and Delray primarily first for both from design, development through construction management and employment. We'll offer workforce training and participation. We'll partner with local schools and community vendors, vendor databases for training in such trades as drywall, electrical, plumbing, and landscaping.

These will create long term careers. We'll have community job fairs, and we'll pay fair wages. Now to the construction. Modulation, not modular. So the original RFP talked about containers and modular buildings. We believe it needs to be built expeditiously,

but we

it needs to be built strong and and more permanence to it. So we're looking at precast panels that will be cast off-site, delivered, and then delivered and put in place. These could be erected in in a day or two days. Steel that will come together as a kit of parts and could be erected there. So we're maintaining less work on-site and less disruption to the community.

Dust control procedures. So we keep dust to a minimum. We restrict staging and lay down areas to on the site, and, of course, we'll have a site safety plan. I wanna talk about the building materials. So in your central business district, it talks about certain guidelines for Florida vernacular or Anglo Caribbean.

What we'd like to do is take materials that are reminiscent of those styles without directly duplicating them, and make it so our project blends with those styles and enhances those styles, but still is a a unique project onto its own, attractive, dynamic, and and very different than anything you've seen. Our key considerations, maximize value by delivering the highest quality budget on schedule. Value engineering. As a design build team, we'll start value engineering from the get go and make sure that the systems we choose are the most economical but most most appropriate for the project. We'll have regular meetings with stakeholders to review the process and review progress and schedule and constructability consider considerations that address any issues that you may have.

We understand that this might not be the exact design that we end up doing, but through community input, through your input, through the SETS input, we'll be able to narrow it down to a design that everybody is proud of. Open book practices. The owner will be part of of the bidding and invoicing processes. So everything's open book. And finally, post occupancy.

And one more sentence?

You have to ask the you have to ask the chair if that's okay, or the board. Yeah.

Sure. Yeah. Board. So post occupancy. We're not just here to build it and disappear. We are we are part of the community, and we're here to stay and to help and to flourish along with the community. Questions and answers, I'm happy to answer any questions. I'd like to thank you for your time and humbly ask for your support.

Thank you.

So at this time, there's ten minutes for question and answers. If you have any questions, if not, then we can move on to the next presentation.

Okay. So commissioner Long, do you have any questions? No questions? Commissioner Cassello? Yeah.

I do. Thank you so much. That blew my mind. Presentation was amazing. I started with this project. I think I'm the only one up here who can say that. It's been a long time coming and it's very exciting and people get really nervous when we talk about anything that's not constructed on-site and bringing in pieces and that to me was outstanding. I love well, first, 500,000,000 in projects and your bonding ability. That's fabulous. Thank you for including that.

I like the idea of different size for occupancy so that we can engage with different types of vendors and certainly as you understand, you know, one's needs may not fill the other. Let me see. I I love how you pulled the parking lot to the side off of Atlantic so it's not visible. The sound barrier would be the only thing I think we have to be 100% sure about because as you see even from your images, we are close to homes and we want to make sure that our residents are not affected as they were there first. Let me see what else I was looking at.

The one thing, when you go to the slide where you're coming in, I think you talked about it could be a market right off Atlantic. This market 800 sign is in this Oh, yes. Portion.

Right there.

Is that that's one level at the bottom that's open and then is that adjoins the second level at the top of the Yeah. So visualize that being used this being used as a green market weekend space.

Yes.

And this will just be kind of a relaxation area up above? Yeah. What's the size of that approximately? I know this is can vary, but Mhmm. What were you thinking would be the approximate size of that space?

About 10,000 square feet.

Thank you so much. Yep. Excellent.

Alan is our Alan is our designer. He's a talent.

Thank you, Alan. Well, you are talented. Thank you. This is absolutely lovely. I appreciate your time and And

if I could talk a moment about the buffers. Sure. As you can see, we've tried to put the least noisy elements, the parking. Right. Although there's cars, but still just not very noisy. Then the childrens and bathrooms over there. Think the sound of children playing is is nice. I do too. All of the commercial activity where there might be music playing is all on Atlantic Avenue.

Very good. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Chair? Commissioner Walker?

Can I just say something? Oh, sure. I just wanted to add in just one thing. So just for clarification, this is a request for qualifications. As we're going through the presentations, I just want to keep that all in mind that this is a qualification request, not specifically about a RFP for a project necessarily. Right. So we just want to look at, remember we're looking at qualifications in this criteria. So we have the RFP in front of you and it does have that listed out there. All of these things are going into, we have like their past performance and approach, redevelopment project understandings and key considerations, which I think is where some of these things are going into. But just as we're thinking about it for our purposes, it is still a request for qualifications.

Right.

So I just wanted to that out there. No problem.

Commissioner Barker. Yeah.

I just have a quick question. I I've been watching the the Katrina video video on on Netflix. It's been produced recently, and I actually finished it last night. And one of the questions I would have is just on the modular materials that you're talking about. How long have they been in the market? How long have they been tested? Did did they hold up? And the reason I'm asking is that this is similar to what happened during Katrina, and they used some materials down there, wood materials. It did not hold up. Yeah. Right? It was involved. I mean, there was lawsuits. There was litigation. It was nasty. Mhmm. And I I I'm not afraid of modular materials at all, but I just want has the testing been done? Will they hold up in our environment? Are you comfortable with that?

I'm absolutely comfortable because we're not using modular materials. We're we're modulating the components that we're using. So the walls that'll be going up are precast concrete walls similar to a tilt wall building.

Okay.

But except they're they're done in a controlled environment on a site, so we can bring them to the site. They're we're not disturbing the site while those are being cast. Okay. The steel is all controlled again, built off-site and and built. So all of this will certainly be hurricane rated. No no different than, say, a tilt wall retail building or

Okay. So forth.

It's just that we're doing it off-site and bringing it and erecting it on-site.

That's great.

So a 100 wind storm category for high velocity wind zone rated. Okay. Great. Engineered.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Mayor? I have no questions. Okay. Thank you. I just wanna say thank you for the presentation, and I was very happy to see your commitment statement, and that you are willing to work with the community in your hiring local hiring opportunities. So thank you for your presentation. Considering this is a request, I won't have any more questions, so thank you. Thank you

so much for

your time and your consideration. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. So we'll just allow a little bit of time for DMR construction to clear out and then we'll ask our next group to come in. We have Hatcher Construction and Development Inc. So you'll have twenty minutes to present and ten minutes for question and answer if the commissioners choose to do so.

You let us know and then we'll start. A clicker also for you. Okay.

That's ready.

Ready to go? Okay. We're gonna start the timer. K. Go ahead.

Good afternoon, commissioners, CRA staff. Thank you so much for having us off this afternoon. Part of our presentation agenda, we're gonna discuss our qualification and experience of the design team and the team members, the design engineer permit, past performance, and approach, the design construction performance and past performance and approach. Similar scopes and complexity, redevelopment project understanding, key consideration. I'm William Hatcher, part of the Centimeters, team.

Jeff Hatcher is in our preconstruction. Bravo Blake, our project manager. Atheia Rose, assistant project manager. Patrick Kalik is our superintendent. Gerard Jenkins, expert in utility. We have Jeff Costello, permitting zoning. George Gutierrez, the project architect. Ramon Gonzalez, the project designer. Here locally, Carol Perez, landscape architect, Robert Ross, civil engineer, and Ida Arbess, structural engineer. A little bit about how to construction experience.

Twenty five years here locally with a lot of Palm Beach County experience. We're a local SPE firm with deep roots in Delray Beach. Later in the presentation, we'll be talking about our modular experience, Legacy on 45th Street. We have a great team, of consultants that's perfect in site infrastructure. We pride our record of zero OSHA violations, and we have some history with the ARC warehouse and CRA renovations, part of our ongoing fostering economic growth with Locusto and the community.

Good afternoon. Jorge Gutierrez, Jorge Gutierrez, architect. With our consulting team of engineers, we have worked on a variety of projects for the past twenty years. Projects from schools, parks, community facilities, private schools such as Hillel Community Day School in North Miami. The one of the one of the schools that we worked at, a private school, the Jewish Culture High School in North Miami, is of note because it was a project that we worked on that required out of the box thinking in getting it approved through the process of having a school in a in an office building and going through the project development process and the complicated process in Miami Dade County and we got that approved for them.

So that's one of the samples that we use for out of the box thinking for complicated projects. We also have done a lot of work for the school district here in Palm Beach County, for the schools, Broward County and Miami Dade County. In addition to that, we have continuing services contracts in municipalities from Deerfield Beach down to the village of Miami Shores. So we have experience in working with municipalities and cities and small towns. And so in in in addition to that, the the approach to this would be the the start of the of the project where we involve the knowledge that Jeff Costello brings to the to the planning and zoning and development of of this project in combination and and collaboration with the entire builder team.

The idea is that the design teams will work in collaboration with the building team throughout the entirety of the project to bring the project to a successful completion in budget, on time. Some of the municipalities we where we have done some work, the City Of Miramar Parks, City Of Miami Garden Parks, the McCourtons Park for Miami Dade County. Our work with the Hatcher team has involved site adaptation for modular classroom buildings at the Storm and Douglas High School, projects in the school district of Palm Beach, the Eisenhower Elementary School, and Timber Trace Elementary School. So we have a history with the building team and collaborated together on a few projects, collaborated successfully. And Ramon can speak a little bit more about the involvement of our team and Hatcher.

Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity. As a architect engineer's point of view, it's very important to collaborate with the construction team from beginning to the end. And this is something that I admire from the Hatcher team. Every project has challenges and having always William personally on-site meeting with the architect engineer to resolve any challenge that may arose on the in the construction site is a plus. So it's something that we really appreciate having his team and William himself available always.

So from from from beginning to end, the process of collaboration collaboration with the CRA, collaboration with the city, collaboration with the boards and the the commission in in conjunction with Jeff Costello who would be with us from the start in the process of preparing any amendments, preparing right of way abandonments, all of the site development process. Together, the team will bring together the idea of a successful project that will be an attractive project, a project that will be a a a community that will make the community proud to have within the the city. Thank you.

Thank you, Ari. Hatcher construction has worked throughout the city of Delray Beach, West Palm Beach, most notably here in the city of Delray Beach. The ACT warehouse is one of our notable project. It serves to the community of Pine Grove, which provides spaces for artists in that area. This is another project that we did for Jupiter Jupiter high school project.

It entails 26 modelers. All the schools are so many to those for the 800 block. We did this project in record time wherein we were three months ahead of schedule setting a record for the school district of Palm Beach County. These are similar projects that we did, modular projects that we did, and all have

the same scope for the 800 block that structural technicalized school, West Admin Transportation Center, Caloosa, Whispering Eyings Elementary School. I'll now pass it over to Jeff. Good afternoon everyone. This is a chart showing the steps that we would take for this project from beginning to end, early contract involvement right up to the engagement of transparency with the owners. Here we're given a detail of how our preconstruction will go for as integrating the foundation, preparing exterior and exterior drawings, design and other steps that would be involved with the preconstruction and development of the project.

Here we're talking about a program that we use, a construction program that we use to give the owners and the subcontractors a look at everything that's going on. This program is a step by step approach to showing the owners and everyone involved with the project everything that's going on. The owners can be integrated so that they can keep up with everything that's happening with the project just as the contractor will. Here we're talking about the schedule and budgets. As you can see, we've had many projects, a lot with school district.

As Byron said earlier everything was done on time and we always stay within budget with the projects.

Patrick construction is known for empowering minority small, and local businesses throughout Palm Beach County. We do this by informing, consulting, involving, collaborating, and empowering. We're known for our great communication and information sharing that we do through our social media and online platforms as well as through our mailings that we have with newsletters and door hangers and we're very good at keeping clear points of contact. We also do a great job with direct engagement and feedback through our participation of public meetings and workshops and we also have one on one meetings as well. Hatcher is super proud of the support that we have by sponsoring local community events as well as the participation we have where we engage in different philanth philanthropic opportunities.

Hatcher is known for exceeding SBE goals and standards of 15%. If you take a look at this chart you'll see eight of our projects where on average we exceeded the SBE goal of 15% by 44.2%.

We visit and study the site. We pretty much know where everything is. We located the water utilities. The fire hydrant on Atlantic Avenue, the main water vials of which you will have a water tie in. We also recognized the power line that's running through along with the storm drain.

At So visiting the site, we realized there's approximately four hundred and thirty thirty feet of overlap overhead power line, three phase cables. There's also 225, feet of single phase primary cable. So we need to install underground electric. To do this, how do we do this? First, contracting with LPNL and the service planners, initiating the removal of these old laboratory facilities, also abandonment of the easement.

We also will provide site plans, boundary surveys, electrical plans, and AutoCAD. This time, buckle up. We gotta view this project in about a minute from start to finish. Whereas we mobilize on-site, lay down our aerial, we put up our silt fence, all the other components, we pay special attention to the site and the surrounding area. We know that there's heavy traffic on Atlantic Avenue that we need to be aware of, and we need to watch out for 8th Avenue and the surrounding school of elementary school.

We know that school started 07:30. A lot of traffic ends around 02:30 when schools came out. During this time, we'll be dropping the modules in, building this project at the same time. Security and safety is a key issue. We're paying attention to that, looking at the trailers that's coming in at the same time, very mindful of the noise that we're gonna create on Atlantic Avenue along with the surrounding neighbors.

As we continue to build, we have our footers in, dropping the containers. At the same time, pretty soon, we'll be doing the canopy on Atlantic Avenue to cover roof. From there, still paying attention to Atlantic. You have a lot of traffic that comes through there, and we wanna be mindful. Our landscape, hardscape, and shade structure come in, and at that time, we'll be ready to turn it over to the owner for their intended use.

Here we have a couple of the buildings that the design team has worked on. If you pay attention to the upper right corner there's a four story build that we're presently involved with trying to get started with Palm Beach Housing Authority. It's also a renovation of some module of our steel modulars that will be converting into a residential living facility with 48 units in each building. As William just spoke of, we're showing an example of how we develop a site at the finish with parking lot, landscapes, sidewalks and other amenities that may come with it. Here we're showing that we have experience in civil and infrastructure with tie ins.

These are some pictures of some previous jobs that we are finishing up where we're doing a water tie into the city main and also with catch basins for the parking lot drainage.

Good afternoon, commissioners, CRA team community. Our team is uniquely qualified for this exciting redevelopment initiative with over thirty five years experience of involvement with the CRA and city planning and redevelopment plans. This is in subdistrict sub area number three adjacent to Northwest Southwest communities. It's been a vision for many years to get the activity along this section of the corridor. Next slide.

The goals of vision. We're very familiar with the goals and vision, creating activities for area residents to enjoy, provide affordable commercial space for small local businesses, the catalyst for private investment along West Atlantic Avenue, encouraging pedestrian activity, synergy, connectivity with between the adjacent neighborhoods as well as the central core of the downtown area. Community engagement is is a very vital aspect of this, hence, we will support the CRA in their community outreach and engagement activities. The added value of our team. We feel that the the team experience over thirty five years experience working with Delray Beach redevelopment initiatives and projects, extensive experience and knowledge of regulations, development review process, permitting process gives us an extra value added value.

Team members participated in and were involved in many of the planning activities in Delray Beach redevelopment efforts. We support local job and job fairs job hiring and job fairs. We're headquartered here in Delray Beach and have a history of working collaborate and collaborating with the CRA and the city team. These are just a few projects just recently I've been working on. A couple are under construction, which you may see on Congress Avenue, Federal Highway, and then, of course, the Hatcher Office Building on Northwest 6th Avenue.

And with regard to the development review process, we understand it will involve abandonments abandonment applications, site plan applications, maybe waivers to the CBD regulations. We know the process will go through planning and zoning board, city commission. And as far as permitting, there are multiple permit applications process. We have that experience through the e services hub and experience dealing with outside agencies. We will work collaboratively with the CRA and the city as we go through these development review processes and adjust as necessary, and also taking CPTED principles into consideration. Thank you.

Just wanna thank you again for giving us an opportunity to present this afternoon. This team have deep roots in this community with proven experience. A team that live, work, and play here in Delray. We have knowledge of the site and all its surroundings. We're aware of the traffic, and we respect the residents as construction going on. We're committed, and we really thank you for everything. Eight years ago, we was much smaller and younger back then, but this same CRA gave us a chance to do our first multimillion dollar project, the art warehouse. We'll never forget that, and we hope that you give us an opportunity again today.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Alright. We'll have time for questions, ten minutes.

Okay. So, are there any questions from the board? We'll start with you.

Would just comment if you I would just like to say thank you because you do, what you do bring is a collaborative experience that we've all benefited from, and we know that of you. I very much appreciate you and all the work you've done for us, mister Costello. We also know you well. And you've been in front of us a few times, I believe. No? Not at all. Oh, I apologize. Forgive me. But at any rate, we appreciate your presentation and look forward to seeing you.

Thank you. Okay. Mayor?

I have no comments.

Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Long? Good. Thank you. Commissioner Martin?

I'm good. Other than I'd to say thank you for a very powerful presentation. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you as well. Thank you. Are you ready? Are we ready?

Or are you ready? We are. Thank you for coming, and we are ready. The the clock is ready to set. Okay.

Great. Hello. Testing. Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. My name is George Lopez, and I am the president of Waypoint Contracting. Before we start, I just wanted to say thank you for having us over here to give us the opportunity to present this amazing redevelopment project to you all. I wanna start off by introducing this all star team of designers and builders that we have put together to execute this project. As a design builder, we have Waypoint Contracting, partnering with the city of Delray, its employees and residents. With me here, I have CPZ, which will be the architect of record, and Kimberly Horn, which will be handling civil, landscape, and traffic.

Alongside us, not here with us, we have Terracon, which will be doing geotech and environmental. Stoner will be doing the surveying. JLRD will be the MEP engineer. Mew Engineers will be the structural engineer. And our land use attorney is SMGNQ.

So Waypoint Contracting is a South Florida based design build general contractor. We have completed numerous projects for municipal, and federal agencies. And the team that we're proposing for this project is myself as project manager, Limriel Blanc as a preconstruction manager, Yacid Yasid as the construction manager, and Cesar Murillo as the site superintendent. Just to showcase some of our relevant work, the project that you're looking at is one that we recently completed for the West Palm Beach CRA. This was about a 100 year old historic building where we took it down to just the two exterior walls and completely rebuilt the entire structure into a restaurant.

There was a massive coordination effort with the city there to connect all the utilities that were required to be brought into this property and to maintain security throughout the entire project. The next project is one that we completed not far from here for the Delray CRA, the 98th And 5th Avenue Building. That building was also taken down to its bones, roof structure completely removed, new elevator tower installed, and it is now office space for the CRA. And the last project that I wanna show you guys is a brand new park that we completed a couple years ago for the city of Doral. This was a virgin piece of land and now is a thriving brand new three acre park for the city.

So next, I'm gonna turn it over to Joe so he could talk a little bit about CPZ.

Alright. Thank you, George. My name is Joe Barry, president of CPZ Architects. I'm here with Tony Jones. She will be the project manager for your project. CPZ is a 22 person firm. We have offices in Plantation, in West Palm Beach, and in Vero Beach. We are leaders in sustainability. We've done several lead projects, but not only lead. We're familiar with Florida Green Building Coalition, Green Globes projects, and we even have a project with a water star that's Doral Glades Park, and you'll see an image of that.

One project we wanna showcase is a park we did for Boca Raton. This is Wildflower Park. Along with public spaces, community spaces, CPZ was involved in designing pavilion and restroom facility for this park. The next project we're showing here is for the city of Coconut Creek. This is Lakeside Park Amphitheater.

This park includes a redevelopment in the sports fields, also playgrounds, and CPZ designed for this park a amphitheater and restroom building. You can see in the top sorry, left image, the amphitheater opens up to an events lawn that also serves as a soccer field. Last project we wanna showcase is in West Palm Beach. This is a community center design for Howard Park. This oops.

I'm sorry. This project includes design of a community center, but also that serves as a an event space, a public lawn, as you can see in that left image. So I wanna now introduce Tiffany with Horn. Hello.

As Joe said, I'm Tiffany with Kimley Horn. I've been in practice for about fourteen years. I would be your civil engineer for this project. My background is on municipal site design, storm water drainage, as well as utilities. But in addition to civil engineering, Kimley Horn would also be supporting this project with landscape architecture as well as traffic engineering.

And we would also be pulling in one of our principals, Stefano Viola, in a QAQC role. But in addition to this team, Kim Lee Horn has been serving South Florida communities for over thirty years. So we're very committed to the local South Florida community. But in addition to that, we have a national wide staff of over 9,000. So we've really gotten pretty comfortable with combining our local expertise expertise with our national resources.

So Waypoint really has put together a team of experts for this project. I mean, in addition to Waypoint's expertise in community spaces as well as CPCs, Kimberly Horn also has extensive experience in community spaces. So on the top is Obie Johnson Park. We had done that project for Hollandao Beach. It was completed back in 2023 and it was within their CRA district.

And as you can see, there's some sports fields, there's a playground, as well as a fairly large community center with indoor basketball spaces. And all of these project elements came out of public involvement. This is what the public told us that they wanted, so this is what we put into the park. At the bottom is Sunrise Village Arts Plaza. That project was completed a little bit earlier this year for the city of Sunrise. And again, this was a heavy public involvement project. Kimmeling Horn had hosted most of multiple town meetings with the public as well as with local artists. Hence, why it looks so gorgeous. But there's few really cool elements to this park. It's got a performance venue.

It's got some exhibition spaces as well as public art installments. And from what we're seeing so far, it really has revived the art community in that area. So next, I'm gonna turn it back over to George to talk about our legal team.

Thanks. So SMGQ couldn't be here with us today, but we saw the importance of bringing a land use attorney on board, obviously, because of the unification of parcels. So we just wanted to to showcase them on one of the slides. We've interviewed them and and had extensive conversations, and and they've looked at the parcels that you've unified. And there's no we see no reason why that that firm can't do the the job that we need them to for this folks. Next, we wanna talk a little bit about Could

I bother you? Do you mind just grabbing microphone? We can hear you, but people listening from afar may be struggling.

My apologies. No. No. So past approach. So I wanted to take this opportunity not to talk about the past projects that we've performed. I believe we already provided to you that to you guys in the solicitation response, but instead talk to you guys about the lessons learned that we got from those projects and how we feel exercising those early on during this design process will help mitigate the risk of this project and making sure that it's a successful project to the finish. So the first item is obviously the unification of parcels. We wanna make sure that that's get that gets done early on so that we have an accurate survey to build our design documents off of. The next is identifying the utility requirements and the connections. We wanna make sure we where those connection points are and how they're gonna play along with the construction sequence and the design that we have to put together.

Then is to have an early understanding of the sub basin geotechnical conditions. So we wanna make sure that the soils and the subsurface conditions align with what our structural engineers are proposing for the structures on the site. Preliminary drainage analysis. We wanna understand how we're gonna maintain storm water on our property and what correlation that's gonna have with the South Florida Water Management District requirements. FPL, I'm sure you all know how how difficult that could be sometimes, so we wanna make sure we bring them on board as a partner early on, understand what our power requirements are gonna be, and we start that coordination process at the beginning with them so it doesn't become an issue to get power at the end.

Permitting. So on this project, we're going to have permits both from a local and outside jurisdiction. We want to make sure we understand what the requirements are from the city of Delray and what the other jurisdictions that have authority over this project from the outside requires so that we could have all the proper permits we need in order to construct this later on. City department coordination. We wanna make sure we bring the city's departments in for design input and then for maintenance input.

We understand this project's gonna be here for a long time, and we wanna make sure that what we built aligns with your maintenance program and maintenance requirements moving forward. On the access side, we want to make sure we understand vehicular traffic, pedestrian access, and public transportation, how that's going to work with the design and how we are we are going to allow for that. DRC review, district review committee. Again, we want to make sure that we're aligning ourselves with all the local architectural requirements, and that's incorporated into the design process. And last, but obviously most important on on any project, the budget.

We wanna make sure that we're maintaining that project through the excuse me, that budget through the design process, and we're gonna do that by exercising cost analysis during every design deliverable, making sure that the design is progressing along with the budget. So that's on the preconstruction side. On the construction side, high level, just wanted to talk to you about two items that we see very important. One is the schedule. We build all our schedules on Microsoft projects.

We use a cool little plug in from NASA to make sure schedules are logically sound. On top of that, we produce slip head schedules that are updated weekly, and they can look out anywhere from two, three, or four weeks out, giving you guys a very detailed input look onto what the construction sequence is moving forward. And the second major build it is maintaining open communication with the community. So making sure that we exercise all measures during construction to contain our dust and our noise to our site. On top of that, we wanna make sure that we engage and give back to the community from this project as much as we can.

By doing that, we're gonna contract with local vendors where possible and bring in local workforce where we can as well too. Minimizing the traffic interruptions, we know how difficult construction can be for the local residents. We wanna make that we sequence work and we do utility connections in a manner that is gonna minimize any traffic interruptions. And on top of that, just keeping residents informed. You'll be surprised how much simple communication to the residents and letting them know what's going on, we'll bring them to our side of the construction project. So project approach, I'm gonna turn it back over to Joe.

Okay. Thank you, George. So when we start this project with you guys, one of the first things we're gonna do is collect all the data that we can. That includes making sure that all the parcels are correctly platted and unify all the titles, gather information on traffic studies. Environmental, we'll look at those.

I know there's a portion of the site that had some environmental concerns earlier earlier on. But also, when we get into design, it's meeting with the CRA, it's meeting with the community, and to define the project goals. We will engage with the community and conduct outreach. Tony and I were involved in the conceptual design of the first iteration of this, so we had firsthand involvement in some of the community outreach events back then. But just a couple more examples. The first image on the left is Lake Worth Beach. We sat in a community room. We had renderings. We had yellow trace and markers, and we met with community members. We asked questions.

We got their feedback and we actually sketched on-site. At West Palm Beach, the image on the right, we actually met on the site of the proposed community center, had Q and A with the community and also shared virtual reality goggles so that they can see on the site where the building was gonna be constructed a three d rendition of it. In Doral, Glades Park, we brought in a blacksmith who worked with the community and developed image, these leaves were incorporated into a permanent display inside the community center. This effort also met the requirements of art in public places. Kimley Horn has an online portal where community engagement is is made a lot more easy, easily to communicate and collaborate with the public, collect feedback during all project phases, and most importantly, put community members' voices at the center of all planning decisions.

When we start design, we'll go through initial planning conceptual layouts that'll develop in into the next phase design development where we'll create greater details and level of of design. Construction documentation, that's getting the drawings and and design ready for permit and for construction. And then in the preconstruction phase, Waypoint will evaluate the project, produce a preliminary schedule, and develop their GMP. Now talk a little bit about the project vision. There's Tony.

Good afternoon. So as Joe just mentioned, I'm Tony Jones, and I'll be working really closely with you on this project. So I just like to start off by saying that we know your project, and we've done the groundwork. We also know East Atlantic Avenue, and we know that it is a lovely beachside town. It has a really nice dining scene.

It has lots of culture to offer us, but we also think that the West has a lot of potential. We believe that it holds a greater promise. We think that the community can create something authentic here. We believe that this can take on its own identity, its own appeal, and the community will have a landmark to call their own and to really anchor the community. So we know that this development will be more than buildings.

We understand that this is going to be a place a public space for the people that work and live here, and we think that this is going to become a legacy of Delray. So what we're sharing here with you today is just a concept. It's just the beginning of the design, and we are willing to work with you and evolve this design. So as I was saying before that we do know this project, and we are aware that you guys would like to explore other opportunities for how this could be developed. So we've also looked into it being a permanent structure.

So we've looked into that, and we're willing to work with you. And we are going to do our very best to work with the CRA and the community and hear everyone's ideas and bring that to light with your help. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Tony. So, obviously, you guys have heard all all the reasons why we we should be selected for this, but I wanted to answer that question for you guys. Why us? Right? Why Waypoint? Why this design team? So this team has vast experience working not only with the city of Delray, but with the CRA. We have a deep understanding of the project's technical requirements. Collectively, I believe we exceed the professional requirements necessary for this project. We have an under we we understand the importance of community involvement for this project and have the flexibility to incorporate their request.

And most importantly, we will foster a transparent teaming relationship with the city and the community that will ensure this project is successful. So that concludes our presentation, and we'll open it up to q and a now.

Thank you. Thank you. Commissioners, board, I'll go start down this way. Commissioner Long. Good. You're good. I'm good.

By the way, I think 98 Northwest 5th was a great project. Thank You guys did a great job there.

Yeah.

So you you you deserve to you a lot a lot of credit for it. But I have no other question, just that comment.

Kudos. Yes?

I would say the same, and I thank you for that. I appreciate the chart where you talked about what you learned and your experience and and what you understand and take from that. Thank you so much for your presentation.

Yes. And thank you all for your presentations. And we will conclude this session.

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Okay. Then we can it's quick, just next steps. Well, I just want to remind everyone, just kind of like public service announcement. So the code of silence is still in place. So any matters relating to this RFQ, any proposer team or anyone representing a proposer's advisor prohibited from contacting or lobbying the CRA chair, CRA commissioner, CRA staff or anyone else working on behalf of the CRA involving this RFQ.

All questions must be in email to Christine Tibbs. You can get her email from our website or you can ask one of us. Any violation of this condition may result in rejection and or disqualification of the proposer. The code of silence, no lobbying is in effect from the date of issuance of the RFQ until the board makes a final decision. Either awards an agreement, rejects all proposal, or takes any other action to end the solicitation process. So I just wanted to put that out there to make sure everyone is aware that we're still under the code of silence for this. Next oh.

I was going to ask, did we give that public service announcement for the last two? I don't remember it.

No. We're going send it an email. This is since we're finished up. We're just saying it at the end. I think some of them They were were informed of this when they were in the other room

as well. They were they're here.

Okay. Good. Alright. Thank you. Okay. So next steps. So we will bring this item back. As you recall, we tabled an item at the August 28 meeting. So we'll have that tabled item back to the board at our October board meeting, which is October 28. So either accept the scores and award the project to the highest proposer based on the selection committee's review, reject the evaluation committee's scores and then select the entity that the board feels is in the best interest of CRA or cancel the RFQ altogether and reject all proposals proposals and or direct Scaff to issue another RFQ. And here's the next board meeting date again where you see what we'll be bringing back for reconsideration. And that's all I

have. Okay.

Could I just Renee, one of the things that, you know, sometimes results in us asking questions is that we get the score but there's not a breakdown of how the individuals considering the applicants get to the place where we get to. If we could get that between, you know, obviously before the meeting, that would be amazing.

So there's a OneDrive folder Okay. That that has that. So we sent that. I'll send it again after this meeting.

Yep. I appreciate it.

Yes. There's a there's a OneDrive. There's a folder that was emailed. It's a link in an email that was sent out. So I'll make sure to send that again with that link and maybe attach it separately. The file was large because it has the RFQ in there, so we can attach the file separately.

Okay. Thank you. That will be great. So are there any other questions? Renee, you have anything else? I do not. Okay. The meeting is adjourned.

Thank you. Thank you all.