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SAMTD/Marion Co. RFI/RFQ#00-08 2 Private Development of Courthouse Square North Block PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT COURTHOUSE SQUARE NORTH BLOCK 1. PROJECT SUMMARY Marion County (County) and the Salem Area Mass Transit District (Transit) are pleased to announce an opportunity for a qualified commercial/retail/mixed use developer to participate in a public/private development in the new Salem Courthouse Square block. The full block development incorporates a new bus transit center, public areas, and an approximately 150,000 sq. ft. office building. The private developme~t opportunity ("Project") consists of a concrete building pad with ground floor maximum building area of approximately 12,790 sq. ft., and above ground floor maximum building area of approximately 17.114 sq. ft. per floor. The development also includes 314 subsurface pa~king stalls, 258 of which are cuRently intended to be used for County and Transit purposes, and 56 of which will be made available to the developer to support the No~th Block project. The County and Transit District are open to examining options by which some of their 258 spaces might be available in support of the private commercial development, but cannot make any commitments prior to seeing a proposal. The site of the development, bounded by Chemeketa Street NE, Court Street NE, Church Street NE and High Street NE in downtown Salem, Oregon, is owned jointly by the County and Transit ("P~axiring Agenc~'). IYs anticipated that a Request for Proposal (RFP) process will be undertaken subsequent to this RFI/RFQ, to select a successful Proposer. The private developer may obtain an interest in the Project property located in the northem part of the site upon the execution of a long term ground lease, or other means subject to the agreement of the County, Transit, and developer. The Project site is in a highly visible Centrai Business District location. Its location, immediately adjaoent to the n~v transit center, should both encourage and be supported by transit use. When combined with the other components of the development, the Project site shouid provide for a sizable amount of pedestrian, customer and visitor activity and access. Due to the unique nature of the development and its central downtown location, the County and Transit wiii expect proposals that are compatible in design, supportive of transit use and complementary of the entire development in terms of economics, function, and scale. The County and Transit invite, at this point, expressions of interest from qualfied development firms or teams; information conceming potential development at the North Biock site; and, statements of qualifications from respondents, setting forth thei~ experience in developing similar urban projects, their financiai capabilities, their approach to the Project, and a preliminary business plan addressing issues identified in this package. The format for submittals, and the details of the selection process, are inGuded in this RFI/RFQ. It is the Procuring Agency's expectation that a Request for Proposals for the development of the North Block site will be developed in part from the information gamered in this RFI/RFQ process. The lssuance of an eventua/ RFP wtll be limlted In distribution to those firms who respond to thls RFURFQ, and who ar~e deemed to be qualit~ed on the basis of the c-iteria presented herein. Proposals in response to the RFP received from firms who do not respond to this RFI/RFQ will not be opened or considered. The Procuring Agency reserves the right to terminate this RFI/RFQ process if the Procuring Agency does not receive at least three (3) responses from