PROPOSAL Main Street (Route 9) Complete Streets Design Services Submitted to: The City of Northampton Submitted by the Team of: Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. & Brown, Richardson & Rowe August 14, 2018 Engineering | Design | Planning | Construction Management August 14, 2018 Mr. Wayne Feiden, FAICP Director of Planning & Sustainability City of Northampton 210 Main Street Northampton, MA 01060 RE: Proposal – Main Street (Route 9) Complete Streets Design Services Dear Mr. Feiden: Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. (GPI) is excited about the opportunity to continue working with the City of Northampton to provide Complete Streets Design Services for Main Street (Route 9). This opportunity resonates with us as this is a unique opportunity to work with the City of Northampton to help transform Main Street into an attractive multimodal street that expresses Northampton’s environmental values and supports social gathering and the downtown community. We offer the city a robust team of leaders in street design and engineering tailored to the specific needs of Northampton. Key reasons we feel we are uniquely qualified to champion this project for the city include the following: ▪ Firm Experience: GPI has taken numerous projects through the MassDOT project development and design process - we know what will be required every step of the way and can assist Northampton to navigate this process while developing a design for Main Street that will be funded, constructed and serve as a lasting source of pride for the community. Simply put, GPI knows what it takes to bring a project like this to completion. We are also aware that what Northampton wishes to achieve is not a typical MassDOT project. We will represent your vision and rely on our depth of experience with similar projects to bring to fruition a plan that will achieve your vision for Main Street. ▪ Project Manager: Mr. John Osorio will serve as the Project Manager. Mr. Osorio has 23 years of diverse experience in transportation engineering consisting of highway design, traffic signal design and construction inspection. Mr. Osorio has led both the Damon Road and Route 9 projects for GPI and has established working relationships with Northampton and MassDOT’s District 2. As Project Manager, he will provide leadership to the team and be responsible for overall project administration, technical assistance and serve as the primary point of contact for the project. Mr. Osorio will provide top-level guidance and oversight of the project team's activities to see that the project's progress, budget, and quality objectives are met in a satisfactory manner. ▪ Key Team Expertise: GPI staff supporting Mr. Osorio include Mr. John Diaz, PE, PTOE, who led the Transit Signal Priority (TSP) project and is a leading expert in Massachusetts on adaptive signal technologies, which may be a good fit for Northampton’s Main Street. Ms. Carolyn Radisch, AICP developed the Transit Mobility Alternatives Study and will lead the public outreach process on this project. GPI’s team also includes landscape architects Brown, Richardson and Rowe (BRR) for streetscape and urban design services. BRR is a Woman-Owned Business with a national reputation in transportation master planning, traffic calming, pedestrian and bicycle research and facility design, rail-trail planning and design, Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. 181 Ballardvale Street, Suite 202 Wilmington, MA 01887 p 978.570.2999 An Equal Opportunity Employer Mr. Wayne Feiden, FAICP August 14, 2018 Page 2 and transit accessibility. GPI and BRR have established working relationships and are currently collaborating on street design and reconstruction projects for the City of Boston’s Public Works Department. ▪ Local Project Experience: We have had the opportunity to get to know Northampton through our work on the Damon Road reconstruction project, the Russell Street (Route 9) project in Hadley, and the Transit Mobility Alternatives Study. We understand what the city wishes to achieve with the Main Street project. We have reviewed the conceptual sketches and have the ability to take a fresh look at the project area. Our prior knowledge of the city will help us work efficiently to meet the project goals. Perhaps our most important qualification, however, is our proven ability to envision compelling projects and to see them to fruition. With a reputation for getting things done, GPI blends the best of planning and design disciplines backed by a top-rated professional engineering firm. Our staff consists of a dedicated team of planners, engineers, and landscape architects who are committed to the success of this project. We know the project area well and can work effectively with the city and the community to develop a plan of improvements that meet the project objectives. We wish to thank you for considering GPI and look forward to continuing work with City of Northampton to advance the goals and objectives of the city on this project. In selecting our team and preparing this proposal, GPI made a conscious effort to ensure that we can take a fresh look at Main Street and define a work effort that will bring the project to completion. We feel the GPI Team has the local knowledge, technical experience and staff resources required to successfully complete this project. If you have any questions, or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me by phone at (978) 570-2964 or email at [email protected]. Best Regards, GREENMAN-PEDERSEN, INC. Timothy Letton, P.E. Executive Vice President/Principal-in-Charge Design Services for Main Street (Route 9) Northampton | 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Letter Why Our Team Section 1: Firm(s) Background 3 Section 2: Project Understanding and Approach 5 Section 3: Scope of Services 13 -Project Schedule 38 Section 4: Project Team 39 -Organizational Chart 39 -Key Personnel 40 Section 5: Project Experience 79 -Relevant Project Experience 80 -Complete Street/Healthy Transportation Project List 113 Section 6: Proposed Project Fee 115 2 | Design Services for Main Street (Route 9) Northampton WHY OUR TEAM We offer the City of Northampton a complete package when it comes to municipal complete street design services. This includes a committed, talented and diverse staff of engineers, planners and landscape architects. Our group is qualified to providean attractive street design that will create a unique sense of place and greatly improve the livability of Northampton. Let us demonstrate how our knowledge of the project, place making approach, and quality product make us the right choice to provide the multifaceted design and engineering services for Northampton’s Main Street. Team01 Value Team 02 Value Team 03 Value We Know the Project Place Making Approach Quality of Product GPI has provided municipal We have assembled a team We pride ourselves engineering for MassDOT that includes urban design, on building positive projects in numerous landscape architecture relationships, developing communities. We are and engineering experts award-winning designs, currently working with to ensure that this project producing quality Northampton and District achieves the community’s construction documents, and 2 on the reconstruction of vision for an attractive and improving the communities Damon Road in Northampton livable town center that is a we work and live in. We and the design for Route 9 in foundation for further growth take great satisfaction in all Hadley. We have reviewed and prosperity. The GPI Team measures of our craft. GPI and followed Northampton’s has all of the necessary is very successful advancing design thinking and disciplines that makes for a projects through the aspirations for Main Street well coordinated process. MassDOT design process for and we are excited to work advertisement. Let us work with you to make your vision a for you, and we will work reality. with you. Section 1 -Firm(s) Background Design Services for Main Street (Route 9) Northampton | 3 SECTION 1: FIRM(S) BACKGROUND LEAD CONSULTANT: GREENMAN-PEDERSEN, INC. (GPI) With a staff of over 1,500 employees in more GPI has become one of the most preferred providers than 50 offices nationwide, our award-winning, of services to the Massachusetts Department of multidisciplinary firm has been providing Transportation (MassDOT) as evidenced by the professional planning, design, landscape numerous task order based contract selections. architecture, engineering, construction and inspection services to all levels of government and GPI is prequalified with MassDOT in the following 21 industry for over 50 years. We are recognized in discipline areas: the Engineering News Record as one of the Top 60 design firms in the U.S. and have established long • Major Environmental Documentation and successful relationships to provide services to local, state, regional, and federal public agencies • Basic, Intermediate, Complex Roadway throughout New England. Design • Basic, Intermediate, Complex Bridge The designers, planners and engineers within our Design/Rating organization work at the intersection of planning and • NBIS Bridge Inspection design to promote a more sustainable world. • Traffic Operations Studies & Design The New England Division of GPI is headquartered • Construction Oversight in Wilmington, MA; and maintains regional studio • Hydraulics and Hydrology offices in Portland, ME, Portsmouth, NH and White • Materials Inspection & Testing River Junction, VT. Our local staff has over one • Landscape Architecture hundred (100) employees including forty (40) • Transportation Planning registered