cation u Co Ed n n e r e e c t h s W Al a exandri January 21, 2014 Downtown Alexandria Now PLEASE NOTE: Pursuant to authority granted by Alexandria City Ordinance and resolutions, this is the sole response to the LCTCS Request for Property Proposals for the downtown of Alexandria. Any responses pertaining to downtown sites submitted by other proposers have neither been approved, nor certified to comply with City feasibility for purposes of matching funds or other infrastructure commitments. ! Tab 1 ! ! ___________________________________ NAME: Albin A. Provosty COVER LETTER ! TITLE: Special Assistant & Counsel to the Mayor January 21, 2014 !January 21, 2014 LCTCS Facilities Corporation C/O LCTCS 265 S. Foster Drive Baton Rouge, LA 70806-4104 Attention: Jan Jackson, Sr. Vice President for Finance and Administration ! RE: Siting and Programming — Central Louisiana Technical Community College, Alexandria Campus, Rapides Parish Workforce Industrial Training Campus Dear LCTCS, LCTCS Facilities Corporation, and other Stakeholders: The City of Alexandria (“Alexandria” or “City”) seeks a collaborative effort with you to create a robust workforce. We want to see a measurable, significant increase in the capacities needed for a trained and able workforce — the underpinning for all real, sustainable economic development. Alexandria has the resources to aid in offering and expanding current training and educational opportunities to citizens and stakeholders throughout Central Louisiana and the State, while simultaneously reinvigorating its downtown and promoting partnerships through its SPARC (see SPARC page 38). and other capital programming. We must think—first and foremost—of the students to be served by locating a campus in our area. Because of the desire to ensure access and the best opportunity for positive outcomes, the City of Alexandria entertained partnering with private citizens and other stakeholders to offer its downtown area as part of this process. Initially, the City desired to provide “wrap around” services and commitments to individual RFP respondents, with varying degrees of support and always dependent upon the feasibility of the response. The City feels strongly that use of its matching dollars should go to the best project possible in the downtown effort. As we moved forward, the downtown respondent pool approached the City and asked that it provide a logistics-based response—for all potential respondents and for one site. The City of Alexandria vetted several sites and believes its response offers the best site for the initial Project. The stakeholders agreed and wished to forego individual responses in favor of one response. Knowing even the best preparation and work can miss some need, the City is offering one site to be exhausted for appropriateness but notes it has other sites conforming to the analysis set forth in its response of varying degrees. Therefore, the City approves and supports with its match funds and infrastructure commitments only one site—the Central City Site. It offers expansion sites, most particularly the Lee Gateway Site, if the need arises. However, the City wishes to engage the LCTCS with regard to the Central City Site. In order to ensure no prejudice if anything should render one site or another deficient based on an unknown problem, the City included a second site for expansion in its response to place hold and comply with the RFP. Because the City feels so strongly that current data supports the downtown as the optimal location for student progress, the City has approached this as the facilitator of the downtown and not particular real estate. -1- There is only one site submitted that has the approval of the City. No other respondent with downtown property has any guarantee of public funding or commitment. This is very important when factoring feasibility. Alexandria has chosen carefully based on a multifactorial approach favoring its SPARC development guidelines. The City also purposefully did not provide an “architect’s” plan but instead an empirically-based scale model of its commitment— knowing the LCTCS will determine the design features of its facilities. Alexandria focused on the hard logistics and data gleaned from several studies of the needs of the LCTCS. Alexandria, depending upon the process, may provide certain infrastructure improvements to the surrounding areas and site of the Community College Initiative. In order to help the City better understand the needs of the LCTCS and help better understand the individual potential of the various downtown sites, the Administration initially developed a two-stage process to aid in site selection: is downtown right for the LCTCS and if so, where? During that process, the RFP was issued and now a unified plan has been submitted. It is our belief that at the end of this process, LCTCS will be able to make an informed decision about the siting of the new Downtown Alexandria community college campus. While no other site carries any guarantee from the City, assuming downtown is chosen, further competitive advantage feasibility is always available between or among plans. The City of Alexandria looks forward to being a vital partner with the LCTCS in the development of a community and technical college campus in downtown Alexandria. I am the single contact and authorized representative of the Proposer, the City of Alexandria. I am further authorized by multiple stakeholders to provide this response. I hereby certify that the information provided in response to the Request for Property Proposal is true and accurate. Please find here the! proposer response form, property detail sheet, and tabs 2 through 6 for your use and consideration. !Respectfully, ! ! Albin A. Provosty Special Assistant and Counsel to the Mayor City of Alexandria, Louisiana (318) 449-5025 [email protected] -2- ! PROPOSER RESPONSE FORM (Exhibit 1) !January 21, 2014 !To LCTCS Facilities Corporation !Gentlemen: In compliance with your Request for property Proposals for the Central Louisiana Technical Community College, Alexandria Campus, we have !examined the request with related documents and provide our response thereto. Proposer understands that the Owner reserves the right to reject any or all responses and to waive any informalities. Proposer acknowledges that the LCTCS Facilities Corporation is a private non-profit corporation, and that this selection process is not governed by any statute, rule or regulation !applicable to public entities. The Proposer agrees that this Response shall constitute an offer, which shall remain open and available for acceptance and may not be withdrawn !for a period of ninety days afer the scheduled closing time for receiving Response. !Respectfully submitted. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned representative of the municipality has caused this instrument to be executed and its seal affixed by its duly st !authorized officers this 21 day of January, 2014. ! ! ! !By: Albin A. Provosty, !Special Assistant and Counsel to the Mayor !Attest: T.: 318.449.5025 E.: [email protected] F.: 318.449.5229 -3- Property Detail Sheet NOTE: Please refer to video attachment for a dynamic view of p h a s e d c a m p u s development. PARKING PARKING PARKING -4- Tab 2 ! VISIBILITY: The site will be located in a highly visible and noticeable area frequented by commuters and travelers. Adjacent properties must be attractive, well maintained, and appropriate. Alexandria’s roadway network is more than 500 miles long Visibility a n d p r o v i d e s s u r f a c e transportation to the people and businesses of the City and the region. ! I n t e r s t a t e 4 9 o ff e r s A l e x a n d r i a’s d o w n t o w n superb access from all quadrants of the region. Such access significantly upgrades the viability of downtown businesses and establishes Central Louisiana as the true regional center for business and commerce. Our city has a high degree of visibility due to its encirclement by I-49, the Cottingham Expressway, and the Red River. And our historic town, with its original streets still intact, continues to be the civic center in important ways. 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It is bounded by the Red River, Jackson street (our principal Urban thoroughfare), I-49, and the Cottingham Expressway (the concrete ”river” of commerce). This area contains the tallest and most permanent architecture in the city, built along Main Street, 3rd Street, and Murray Street. Lee Street has acquired I:\DWG\Planning Dept\! Community College - Downtown Alexandria Proposals Sept 2013\! Site\Proposed Site.dwg, 9/26/2013 1:55:33 PM, darjohnson, DWG To PDF.pc3, ANSI expand B (17.00 x 11.00 Inches), 1:362.513 a new importance as a major gateway to the Urban area and Arts Campus from I-49.