Among firms meeting with city officials before completing their requests for qualifications were Beitler Co., Fifield Co., Forest City, Higgins Development, John Buck Co., Jones Lang LaSalle, Legacy Development, McCaffery Interests, MCL Cos., Northern Realty, Tishman-Speyer and U.S. Equities. Retail REIT General Growth Properties also was represented. Architects included officials from Solomon Cordwell Buenz and SOM. While most of the firms represented were from the city, two officials from Seattle-based civil engineering consulting firm Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire Inc. made the trip.
The deadline for the requests for qualifications, which require a $2,500 non-refundable deposit, is March 22. The city hopes to reach a memorandum of intent with a master developer in July for the 2.8-acre site bounded by State, Washington, Randolph and Dearborn streets. By then, it hopes to have re-acquired the long-vacant land from a development team that proposed a $250-million mixed-use project that was doomed by an inability to get hotel financing and a retail design deemed "big box" by city officials.
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