Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 09-20-16
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Department of Engineering and Construction
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Approval of the selection of Selser-Schaefer Architects and authorization to negotiate a Professional Consultant Agreement for Concept Design of The Center for Arts, Innovation, and Creativity in the Rose District (Project No. 161715)
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Background:
The ArtsOk Regional Arts Alliance of Broken Arrow and the City of Broken Arrow are jointly working to design and eventually construct a Center for Arts, Innovation and Creativity facility located in the Rose District in downtown Broken Arrow. The proposed Center for Arts, Innovation and Creativity facility will be an approximately 15,000-30,000 square-foot, two-story building with capacity for expansion to three stories. The exterior treatment is expected to be compatible with the existing Rose District. The building will possibly house studios, galleries, classrooms, workshops, and performance venues for visual arts (drawing and painting, photography, sculpture, glassblowing, ceramics), performing arts and culinary arts.
The Advisory Committee that oversees this project on behalf of the ArtsOK Regional Arts Alliance of Broken Arrow has established a Subcommittee along with members of the City of Broken Arrow staff and a representative of the Downtown Advisory Board \ Main Street Merchants Association to select a registered professional architectural firm to design the desired facility. Letters of Interest (LOI) were solicited on May 5, 2016, with a due date of May 20, 2016. Staff received Letters of Interest from 24 architectural firms. The Subcommittee sent out Requests for Proposals (RFP's) to the 24 firms that responded to the LOI on June 15, 2016. By July 14, 2016, the due date to respond to the RFP, 14 firms provided the requested proposals. The Subcommittee reviewed and evaluated the Proposals and has ran...
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