HomeMy WebLinkAboutletterJanuary 26, 2005
Mr. Joe Arriola
Chief Administrator/City Manager
City of Miami
3500 Pan American Drive
Miami, FL 33133-5595
Dear Mr. Arriola:
On November 20, 2004 our committee was created to review three proposals received by
the City of Miami in response to an RFP that was advertised for a redevelopment
opportunity to purchase, plan, design, develop and construct a mixed -used project on a
City of Miami property located at 400-430 SW Sth Avenue in East Little Havana
neighborhood previously known as El Teatro Marti.
We reviewed the proposals and invited each developer to make an oral presentation on
January 19, 2005 before our committee. After a careful evaluation by the members of this
committee utilizing the selection criteria set forth in the RFP, we ranked the proposals as
follows:
1) Amco Holdings, LLC
2) El Teatro Development, LLC
3) Teatro Jose Marti, LLC
Our committee voted to recommend that the City Manager negotiate with only the first two
proposals, in rank order. This evaluation was based on the information provided to our
committee via proposals submitted by the developers and the presentations. No review
has been made regarding compliance with any zoning and/or other codes to determine if
the projects, as proposed, can be constructed without the need for variance, special
exception, etc. The committee agreed,that in the event that Amco Holdings, LLC project's
design requires extraordinary zoning approvals requiring a public hearing, the City
Manager, at his sole and reasonable discretion, could proceed to negotiate with the second
ranked proposals, El Teatro Development, LLC.
Secondly, our recommendation also included the condition that in the event you cannot
come to terms with the number one ranked proposals and decide to negotiate with the
second place finisher instead, that El Teatro Development, LLC, should be required to
include a retail component with sufficient parking spaces to meet the requirements
acceptable to the Planning Department.
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Oscar Rodriguez
Committee Chairaerson
CC: Jose "Pepe" Sanchez
Zully Ruiz
Enrique Nunez
Jose Casanova