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Alachua County Board of County Commissioners Request for Letters of Interest

Alachua County Board of County Commissioners Request for Letters of Interest. Private Sector Partners for the Development of the County’s New Fairgrounds and Transforming the Existing Fairgrounds Site into a Business/Commerce Park. Location Map Existing and Future Fairgrounds Sites.

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Alachua County Board of County Commissioners Request for Letters of Interest

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  1. Alachua County Board of County CommissionersRequest for Letters of Interest Private Sector Partners for the Development of the County’s New Fairgrounds and Transforming the Existing Fairgrounds Site into a Business/Commerce Park

  2. Location MapExisting and Future Fairgrounds Sites

  3. Public Private Partnership to Develop Fairgrounds • Request for letters of interest from private sector • Assistance with financing and development of new Fairgrounds • Private sector redevelopment of old Fairgrounds site

  4. Components of the new Fairground • 50,000 sq. ft. Arena/Coliseum with 5,000 permanent seating and space for 2,500 temporary seating, and 10,000 sq. ft. of meeting/office space • 48,000 sq. ft. Multi-Purpose Auditorium/Exhibition Hall • 50,000 sq. ft. Covered Equestrian/Livestock Arena, with tent pads and animal barns • Midway and Events Lawn • Parking

  5. New Alachua CountyFairgrounds Master Plan

  6. New Alachua County Fairgrounds Master Plan - Phase I

  7. The estimates costs forconstruction of Phase I of the Fairgrounds • Exhibition Building: 46,000-50,000 gsf = $8,500,000 • Covered Arena: 56,000 gsf = $3,600,000 • Open Warm-up Arena: 15,000 gsf = $100,000 • Animal Tent Pads: 65,000 gsf = $200,000 • Gates/Portals/Graphics: 2 = $80,000 • Fencing: 4,000 lf = $160,000 • Events Lawn: 9 acres = $720,000 • Paved Parking: $600,000 • RV Connections: 50 = $150,000 • General Site Development: $4,500,000 • Fixtures/Furnishings/Equipment: $500,000(allowance)___________________ Subtotal: $19,110,000 Contingency: $1,900,000 Architectural Fees and Related Soft Costs: $1,300,000 Order of Magnitude Projected Cost: $22,310,000

  8. Cost Estimates forConstruction of Fairgrounds - Phase I Order of Magnitude Projected Cost, including Architectural Fees, Related Soft Costs and Contingency: $22,310,000 Order of Magnitude Financing Available, without Committing General fund to Debt Service: $12,000,000

  9. Existing Alachua CountyFairgrounds Property

  10. Representative Uses Allowedin Business Industrial (BI) Zoning

  11. Potential Private Sector Incentives • Long-term, low-cost land lease • Qualified Targeted Industry Tax Credits • Tax Credits and other incentives available by location Gainesvile CRA and Enterprise Zone

  12. Recommendations • Authorize staff to distribute Request for Letters of Interest from private sector to partner with the County to develop its new Fairgrounds and redevelop the existing Fairgrounds site • Requests responses be submitted by April 1, 2011

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