Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Design an approximate 60,000 square foot indoor community center, attached or immediately adjacent to Currents Aquatics Center, in McCormick Park, with spaces that are multi-use, multi-functional, and supporting sports, dance, small performance, child care, aging adults, meetings, and shows or festivals. Space must provide for community center and support staff, concession area, reception area, and storage. Design must meet goals of equity, inclusion, accessibility, flexibility, sustainability, affordability, climate resiliency. Space may act as an emergency shelter or support facility during local disasters. 2. At this time funds are not available for development of construction and bid documents or for construction and construction management, but should additional funds become available, the awarded contract for services may include additional work for development of construction and bid documents as well as construction administration. 3. Additional considerations and services desired include development of program and facility design to function successfully with the Aquatics features; provision of parking options, materials to aid in a capital campaign; plans for phasing; accurate projection of cost for construction and related architectural services, and a break even analysis, based on facility design, business proforma. The City may wish to consider an alternate delivery such as construction manager at risk as funding becomes available.
