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Request for Proposals - Consultant Services

Texas Avenue Corridor Redevelopment Master Plan
The City of Bryan, Texas
Submittal Deadline: March 5, 2008

The City of Bryan, Texas is seeking a consulting firm or consulting team
to complete the Texas Avenue Corridor Redevelopment Master Plan. This
project is a land use study of the approximately eight (8) mile Texas
Avenue (Business State Highway 6) corridor leading from Bryan's northern
city limits to the City of Bryan/City of College Station boundary. The
Texas Avenue Corridor Master Plan will suggest solutions to existing
land use, corridor appearance, infrastructure and access management
issues along this corridor. In recent years, some segments of this major
roadway have seen promising signs of redevelopment. Other parts of the
corridor pose a challenge not only to property and business owners, but
also to developers and planning professionals: unattractive,
long-vacant, underutilized and dilapidated properties and a number of
vacant commercial facilities. This study would serve as a blueprint for
future action.

This unique planning project will require a community-based approach
identifying innovative yet realistic development and redevelopment ideas
for this major thoroughfare. The plan's emphasis will be on the
workability of the proposed strategies and not the quantity of included
graphic depictions. In selecting a planning consultant for this project,
the City of Bryan will consider proposals that reflect an understanding
of the emphasis in this effort.

The broad scope of the study will address the following key issues:

*	Vision. The study will build consensus on a vision for land use
and design concepts along the Texas Avenue Corridor. 
*	Property Revitalization. The study will recommend strategies to
encourage the revitalization of properties in the study corridor by
planning for economic development, infrastructure, housing, and historic
resources and by encouraging new development to locate in the study
corridor. 
*	Development Concepts. The key component of the study is the
preparation of development concepts for properties (or a recommended
combination of properties) with frontage on Texas Avenue. These concepts
should illustrate how improvements along the corridor should be arranged
so as to fulfill the vision for the corridor. 
*	Advanced Planning and Implementation Techniques. The study will
recommend land use planning tools for the corridor, including, for
example, design guidelines for new development, signage control, and
possibly a new type of corridor zoning containing provisions for
appropriate mixed land uses. 
*	Economic Development Strategies. The study will look at ways to
promote new infill development in the corridor and foster better
designed development. The study will identify available tools, tactics
and financing vehicles for comprehensive corridor redevelopment and
suggest practical strategies to pursue these. 
*	Directed Public Investment. The study will likely make
recommendations that encourage directed public investment to locations
that make economic sense. 

The complete RFP for this project can be found at
http://www.bryantx.gov/departments/index.html?name=bids
<http://www.bryantx.gov/departments/index.html?name=bids> . All
questions should be submitted in writing to ldavis at bryantx.gov
<mailto:rbarker at round-rock.tx.us> or faxed to 979-209-5507.

Please note the following scheduled timeline for this solicitation:

February 15, 2008

 

Release RFP to Vendors/Web Site Post Date

February 25, 2008

 

Deadline for Questions 10:00 a.m.

March 5, 2008

 

Proposal Submission Deadline 2:00 p.m.

 

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