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March 30, 2015
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To. Board Chair Keon Hardemon
and Members of the CRA Board
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Date March 20, 2015 File 15-00335
Subject Resolution Accepting Selection of Top
Ranked Contractor for Town Park Plaza
South Rehabilitation and Renovation.
From: 1✓Tarence E. Woods, III References
Executive Director
Enclosures: Supporting Documentation; Legislation
BACKGROUND:
The attached Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community
Redevelopment Agency ("CRA") accepts the recommendation to select H.A. Contracting, Corp. as the top
ranked firm to perform the renovation and rehabilitation of Town Park Plaza South, and authorizes the Executive
Director to negotiate with H.A. Contracting, Corp. for the renovation and rehabilitation of Town Park Plaza South
("Project").
Built in the early 1970's, Town Park Plaza South ("TPPS") is a HUD Cooperative housing complex located at
1798 N.W. 7"' Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136 (Folio #: 01-3136-066-0001) and consists of 116 apartment units
and common facilities scattered throughout 17, two-story building pods. TPPS is in need of its 40-year re-
certification, and in general, the complex is in various states of disrepair as on -going building maintenance may
have been neglected over the years. Most of the vacant units are in deplorable condition, requiring "full -gut"
type rehabilitation and underground water and sewer lines are in need of replacement as well.
On September 17, 2012, the Board of Commissioners, by Resolution No. CRA-R-12-0061, provided for the
issuance of tax revenue bonds to finance, among other things, the renovation and rehabilitation of Town Park
Plaza South.
Further, on November 6, 2014, the CRA issued Request for Qualifications ("RFQ") No. 14-06 for Design -Build
and Relocation Services for Town Park Plaza South. On December 8, 2014, the CRA received five (5)
responses to RFQ 14-06. On February 24, 2015, a selection committee consisting of: Carlie Dunbar, State
Licensed General Contractor; Pauline Brathwaite, Town Park Plaza South; Linet Christopher, Town Park Plaza
South; Neil Shiver, CRA's Assistant Director; and Brian Zeltsman, CRA's Director of Architecture and
Development met to evaluate the aforementioned proposals, and ranked the proposal received from H.A.
Contracting, Corp. as the highest ranked proposer.
Once authorized, the negotiations will include an assessment of the condition of TPPS in order to ascertain the
actual cost of the Project. Although the tax revenue bonds issuance included funding for the renovation and
rehabilitation of Town Park Plaza South, additional funding may be required after the property assessment is
complete.
JUSTIFICATION:
Section 2, Goal 3, at page 11, of the 2009 Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Plan
("Plan") lists the "creati[on of] infill housing, diversity in housing types, and retaining affordable housing," as a
stated redevelopment goal. Section 2, Principle 2, at page 14, of the Plan provides that "[t]he neighborhood .. .
retain access to affordable housing ...."
This Project will eliminate slum and blight conditions by curing the visible deterioration as evidenced by
structural cracks in some units, broken windows, loose railings on upper floors, sewer backups, water leaks from
decrepit plumbing, existence of mold, wood rotting in doors and fascia of roofs, as well as outdated electrical
wiring. In addition, the construction will provide, although temporary, needed jobs to the residents of the
Redevelopment Area.
FUNDING:
Funding will be allocated from the tax revenue bond issuance provided for by Resolution No. CRA-R-12-0061.