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Portsmouth council authorizes negotiation to evaluate unsolicited city hall and County Street parking garage proposal
Summary
After a public hearing and community comments, Portsmouth City Council voted unanimously to let the city manager negotiate an interim agreement with the Ripley Heatwell/MEB team to pursue due diligence and a 35% design for a proposed new city hall and County Street parking garage. The authorization is not approval to build or finance the project.
Portsmouth City Council on March 10 authorized the city manager to negotiate an interim agreement with an unsolicited developer team to study a proposed new city hall and a County Street parking garage and to pursue a 35% design and related due diligence.
Dan Heatw, representing Ripley Heatwell Company and partner firms, presented the conceptual plan and stressed the council was being asked only to allow negotiation and evaluation. "This is not an approval to build the project or to proceed with a binding comprehensive agreement," Heatw told the council during a public hearing. He described the proposal as an opportunity to relocate City Hall, consolidate departments on accessible ground-floor space and free waterfront land now owned by the city for taxable redevelopment and public activation.
City Manager Steven Carter…
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