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CRA outlines land-sale RFP for 2.33-acre Depot District parcel; board presses controls on end use
Summary
CRA staff proposed a year-end land-sale RFP for a 2.33-acre Depot District parcel with preferences for artist space, family housing and vertical farming; board members pressed staff on selling versus ground-leasing, deed restrictions, and development agreements to protect public benefits.
At the Nov. 18 meeting, Austin Taylor, CRA project manager, outlined a proposed disposition of a 2.33-acre CRA parcel in the Depot District (roughly between 600 West, Dancy Drive, 100 South and 50 South) and recommended releasing a land-sale RFP by the end of the year.
Taylor said the parcel appears in decades of planning documents — including the Depot District project-area plan and the more recent Rio Grande District plan — and that staff’s RFP preferences would require ground-floor artist space, favor family-size and for-sale residential units, and indicate a preference for vertical farming where feasible.
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