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i <br />PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br />The CourUiouse Square project is planned for the vacant full block in the Salem Central Business <br />District (CBD) which is bounded by Court Street on the south, Chemeketa Street on the north, <br />High Street on the west, and Church Street on the east. This location is considered a good CBD <br />locafion with the Marion County Courthouse across Court Street to the south, the Salem Centre <br />retail complex to the north and west, and many financial service organizations located within this <br />immediate neighborhood. <br />The proposed construction, based upon schematic design phase drawings provided by <br />Arbuckle/Costic Architects, Inc., is summarized as follows. The project, which will involve the <br />entire. block, consists of a joint project by Marion County and the Salem Transit District. <br />A substantial partion of the block will be developed for the Salem T7ansit bus operation. Salem <br />Transit District is contribufing a Transit grant totaling $9,844,000. <br />The project will feature a five-story, Class A office building to be located on the southern side of <br />the site with the bus transit facility and future Phase 2 development with an azcade, located on the <br />northerly 75 percent of the block. The focus of this comparative analysis is the five-story office <br />building and related pazldng and specifically the Marion County office space. The total gross <br />building area as provided by the architect is 151,994 squaze feet, with a total rentable area of <br />141,382 squaze feet. The proposed structure is a five-story, Class A office building with <br />258 subsurface pazldng stalls and 59 above-grade pazlang stalls. The construction detail is <br />summari~~i ~ follows: post-tension concrete frame with brick veneer covering, flat roof structure - <br />with built-up cover, insularion to code, anodized aluminum frame windows fixed in place. The <br />interior office build-0ut is reported to have an allowance of $20 per squaze foot, and includes: <br />vinyl/carPet floorcover, painted sheetrock walls, t-bar acouskical tile ceiling with recessed <br />fluorescent lighting, and solid core wood doors in metal frames. The slructure will have a <br />complete HVAC system, electrical system, fire and life safety systems, and two elevators serving <br />all levels of the office and parking structure. Seven-fixture men's and women's restrooms, along <br />with a janitor closet will be provided on each floor. The proposed project will include the <br />County, Transit, and some speculative office space. A tabulation chart of the floor-by-floor <br />rentable squaze feet is presented on the following page. <br />