The project team has recently issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a Retail Leasing Consultant to assist the team with procuring retailers for the ground-floor space at the Dudley Sq. Municipal Center.
Retail Floor Plan for the Dudley Sq. Municipal Center
The RFP was issued on June 3, 2013, and responses are due on June 19th. Services required of the Retail Leasing Consultant would include:
Below is the full text of the public advertisement that was recently published:
ADVERTISEMENT (with contract time extension)
CITY OF BOSTON
PUBLIC FACILITIES DEPARTMENT (PFD)
Request for Proposals (RFP)
Retail Leasing Consultant
Dudley Square Municipal Office Facility
Project No. 6986
For information specific to this particular RFP, please
contact the PFD Bid Counter at (617) 635-4809
The City of Boston, acting through the Property and Construction Management Department, (“the City”), is requesting proposals from qualified retail leasing firms to provide consultant services in connection with the Dudley Square Municipal Office Facility Project in the Roxbury District of the City of Boston. The specific property is located at 2262 Washington Street and is presently under construction. Once completed, the property will be a seven-story municipal building with city offices and retail space
The scope of work is more particularly described in the RFP, and includes advising the City on the leasing of retail space, developing an RFP for tenant retail opportunities, marketing retail spaces, recruiting tenants/retailers and evaluating proposals.
The RFP package will be available beginning Monday, June 3, 2013 at the Bid Counter, 26 Court Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02108 to all interested parties.
Completed proposals must be submitted directly to the Bid Counter, at 26 Court Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02108 in accordance with the instructions in the RFP application package no later than 2:00 PM on June 19, 2013. LATE PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
The contract will begin in July 2013 and continue through February 2014, with the City’s sole option to renew the contract for up to 16 months, subject to the availability of an appropriation. The City reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, or parts thereof, if it is in the public interest to do so.
For questions about the RFP, contact Roger Mann at (617) 918-4421. The PFD Bid Counter hours of operation are Monday – Friday 9:00AM to 12:00PM (Noon) and from 1:00 PM to 4:00PM. Please plan accordingly.
Michael J. Galvin, Commissioner,
Property and Construction Management Department
June 3, 2013
Superintendent Bob Wice makes sure that Dudley project objectives are completed on time and with quality. Going into his 27th year working in construction, Bob has worked on challenging and notable projects including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Rhode Island Hospital. He’s excited to tie together Dudley’s three unique facades into one structure that’s “anything but run of the mill”.
As part of our “Meet the Team” series, we will periodically feature a different member of our construction team.
Amber Edwards, the project team’s intern, is a senior at Madison Park High School. On Monday night at the Senior Awards Celebration, Amber received two awards: Vocational Excellence and School Spirit. Amber will be concluding her internship this month, and will attend the Community College of Rhode Island in the fall.
Amber Edwards, Tom Leahy , and Amber’s sister Krystal Edwards at the Senior Awards Celebration, Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, Monday Evening, June 3, 2013 — Photo Courtesy of Charles Ramsay
Senior Project manager Tom Leahy noted that Amber had closely followed the development of the Dudley Square Municipal Center during a critical period of construction, from foundation excavation to steel erection. “Amber closely observed the inner-workings of a complex urban high-rise construction project during its formative phase, and chronicled it in a journal. She will be missed, and the team wishes her the best of luck in her studies. With the continued help from Susan Lambert, Madison Park High’s Cooperative Education Coordinator, we expect to extend the internship opportunities through the remainder of this project.”
The meeting agenda included a discussion of:
An architect with more than 20 years of experience working with commercial, institutional, and municipal clients, Victoria is adept at collaborating with colleagues throughout the duration of the design process. In addition to a number of institutional projects, Victoria contributed to the St. James Place development in Porter Square, Cambridge.
The Dudley project resonates with Victoria on several levels. “I lived in this area when I first moved to Boston so contributing to its future seems a fitting way to pay it forward,” she says. As a child, Victoria’s mother served as the Chairman of the Board of Education for West Hartford. “Working for the Boston Public Schools now pays homage to someone who was very important to me.” As an architect, she loves working on complex, multi-faceted projects. “Fitting the new Boston Public Schools headquarters into this site to repurpose and reinvigorate the Ferdinand building as well as the adjacent Curtis and Waterman buildings is the type of challenge I absolutely love to tackle.”
Victoria is a senior associate at Sasaki. She is an NCARB-certified registered architect who attended Pratt Institute.
As part of our “Meet the Team” series, we will periodically feature a different member of our construction team.
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