Development Team Meeting Notes (96-99)

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What about roof top parl~ing? There is no practical way to ramp to park on the raof. There was also an issue with length of conidors on fire/life safety that is being worked on. Eliminating the 4`~ ~ floor would also eliminate skylights and roof garden and that could save a chunk. There is a possibiliry to go to a three story option. Dave and Leonard will meet and get a moze cost effective package. Randy expressed his appreciation to the group for their coming into this meeting prepared to do what needs to be done per his falc on Tuesday afternoon as a result of his meeting with Sc~ott and MMDC that morning. This design is too expensive, and we can't get financing with a$1-3 million cost difference. We need to give serious consideration to options available to us. By using the 280 parking design, it takes the city out of picture. We need to take out 25,000 sf in the leased space. The board is prepared to take whatever political heat arises with mistakes in the design. We don't want to kill the project, but counry can't afford it, unless someone can show substantially larger savings. The cunent design won't work. We don't want to discount the work that has been done to date. Another option would be to take off everything, eliminate the 80 foot span over the bus mall but salvage the tower and by going up 4-5 stories, it would create a more efficient design. Randy will be going before the commissioners Wednesday morning to give a status report. He is fully prepared to tell board we may abandon the current design but will need to give them options of how the project will change. How do we evaluate the three options today without spending a lot of money? MMDC has floor plates for a tower type office building that they have used over the years. It can be adjusted to this site. A real efficient skin to floor area wouldn't take a whole lot of time to adjust to that scenario, so Pence/Kelly could have something to price fairly quickly. The bus mall can't be moved from center, as the city won't let it move to the north end of the block. We could go another 5-10 feet north, but that is the limit. Another option would be to do nothing on the north end ~ but landscape and make part of mall park setting or add additional on street parking for visitors, with one way in and out. Is there still a chance for above ground parking garage where buses travel under it? This idea has both positive and negative concerns. If it is enclosed, it makes it tougher to handle the cazbon and fumes generated by the buses. MMDC will talk about dealing with this aspect. A pprtion of it may be double loaded 90 degree parking. The block is 330 feet long. If we are working with an off'ice building tower of 106 x 200 on south end with a 124 feet double loaded parking on the north end, that leaves a gap of 100 feet in the middle. Mall width is 170' (two 85 foot spans). We would need to cover half the mall. We could end up with the most cost effective parking and office building. Byron still has concerns with ventilation problems and Leonard voiced concerns about TranSit not being an integral part of the design. It was added that retail could occupy the base of the parking structure and in the office building and the use of skybridge to connect the two. The team worked on different options of redesigning the project. Option of 7 story building with 22,000 sf per floor would provide 155,000 sf to meet needs defined earlier. Architectural issues brought up included the elimination of Hatf'ield Plaza, it is no longer a square, but a big hole. The project would need to stay under 75 feet, as new factors come into play over this height. Different options were diagramed on the board. Randy expressed that radical changes are being proposed and it is diff'icult to make any decisions with R. G. out of town. From transit's standpoint a parking structure below ground has real merit. If there is an opportunity to salvage any initial design and go up, let's look at it. The open space and extra ~ parking on the surface with a 278 parking structure makes sense. The grade parking is not a diff'icult Page 7 of 10