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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM53
Honorable'Mayor and Members -
ro : . of'the City Commission DATE : APR 1 1996 FILE
Approve Issuance of RFP for
SUBJECT : Dinner Key Boat Yard
FROM : REFERENCES for 4/25/96 Commission
Cesa io Meeting'
City ger ENCLOSURES: Resolution, Draft RFP
RECObOdENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the City Commission adopt the
attached Resolution. authorizing the City Manager to issue a Request
for Proposals_ ("RFP"), for a unified development project ("UDP") for
the City -owned waterfront property known as the Dinner Key Boat Yard,
located at 2640 South Bayshore Drive in Coconut Grove. The project is
to consist of the development of commercial and recreational water -
dependent facilities, with the option for certain additional
facilities and ancillary related uses on a total of approximately 13.5
acres.
BACKGROUND
The attkched legislation has been prepared by the Department of
Community Planning and Revitalization. In accordance with the
procedures for Unified Development Projects outlined in the City
Charter and Code, and as authorized by Resolution 95-48, the
administration has prepared the attached Request for Proposals for the
subject UDP, which is being considered at a duly advertised public
hearing. The RFP was prepared with considerable input and direction
from community residents, appointed and elected boards, and
representatives of the targeted industries in the private sector.
The subject property, the former Merrill Stevens Boat Yard, consists
of approximately 6.9 acres of upland and as much as 6.6 acres ,of
submerged 'lands. This RFP is to meant to facilitate the development
of t/a boat yard, marina .and related retail and office facilities, with
the option to develop a public market and/or historic'
interpretive/interactive facility, on the subject property. The
integrated package of services sought from the private sector includes
planning,' design, construction, leasing and 'management of such
improvements.
At a later date, the -City Commission will be asked to select a
Q, certified public accounting firm and to appoint members --to a review
committee (,consisting of a number of City officials or employees and {
an equal number, plus one, of members of the public whose names shall
be recommended by the City Manager), in accordance with prescribed UDP r
procedures: _ ?
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