Commissioners debate West End RFP finalists as financing and zoning constraints surface
Staff and a consultant presented two finalist proposals for the city's West End site that trade off public parking, housing units, and financing needs; commissioners questioned zoning setbacks, TIF/brownfield financing, and the city's $7.6 million prior land investment.
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Benjamin and Rob Bacigalupi of Mission North reviewed three conceptual proposals and explained why the design team narrowed responses to two finalists, Endeavor and Shore North. The city paid about $7,600,000 cumulatively for the West End parcels from the parking services fund; both finalists acknowledged that recovering that full investment would be difficult without public incentives.
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