Title
Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Use the Construction Manager at Risk Delivery Method to Construct the Steven B. Tanger Center for the Performing Arts
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Department: Coliseum
Council District: 3
Public Hearing: N/A
Advertising Date/By: N/A
Contact 1 and Phone: Matt Brown, Managing Director 373-7400
Contact 2 and Phone: James Dickens, Assistant City Attorney 373-2320
PURPOSE:
Pass a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to use the Construction Manager at Risk Delivery Method to Construct the Steven B. Tanger Center for the Performing Arts.
BACKGROUND:
On March 4, 2014, the City Council adopted a Resolution Authorizing the Mayor and City Manager to Enter into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") Between the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro ("CFGG") and the City to design, finance, develop, construct, and manage the operations and programs of the proposed Steven B. Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (STCPA). As part of this MOU, the CFGG, through private donors, agreed to pay up to $5 million of design costs for the facility and $30 million for the construction costs. The City also agreed to pay up to $30 million for the construction of the facility. City staff working in conjunction with the CFGG recommends that the City Council select the Construction Manager at Risk delivery method to construct the facility. In the Attachment A to this Agenda Item, City staff has analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of using the Construction Manager at Risk delivery method in lieu of the separate prime, single prime and dual bidding delivery methods authorized by N.C.G.S. 143-128 (a1)(1) through (a1)(3). This analysis is required by N.C.G.S. 143-128.1(e) before the City may use this option. 143-128.1(e) was part of Session Law 2014-42 that was passed by the legislature on June 30, 2014 and was made effective on October 1, 2014. City staff has concluded that the six advantages to using the Construction Man...
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