ID: Market District/Food Makers' Incubator Planning Contract - RFP
Title: Othello Market District/Food Makers' Incubator Planning Project - Request for Proposals
Bid Start Date : Jan. 24, 2020, noon
BidEnd Date: Feb. 14, 2020, 5 p.m.
Status: Closed
Active: True
Submittal Info: Mail, hand deliver, or email by 5 PM, Friday, February 14, 2020
Bid Opening Info: Evaluation by February 24, 2020
Description:
The City of Othello is soliciting proposals from qualified consulting firms to conduct a Planning Study for the Othello Market District/Food Makers’ Incubator Project.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
The Othello Market District/Food Makers’ Incubator Project goal is to stimulate entrepreneurship, small business start-ups and expansions that will create family wage jobs, strengthen the local economy, and build on the significant existing agriculture and food processing assets of Othello and Adams County.
Othello is interested in securing the Avista Utility site in the heart of downtown to redevelop into a Market District/Food Makers’ Incubator featuring state-of-the-art facilities, a commercial kitchen, and support services for entrepreneurs and small business owners engaged in value-added agriculture. Secondarily, the Market District would offer a seasonal farmers market with flexible outdoor and indoor spaces to accommodate stalls for farm produce and arts and crafts vendors. The Market District would have a plaza with adequate parking, where residents and tourists could gather to enjoy local food and beverages at food trucks and restaurants and to celebrate the arts, cultural festivals, and entertainment.
This Planning Study is intended to build upon an initiative that Othello began in 2018. At that time, the Othello Farmers’ Market Feasibility Study funded by the Department of Agriculture was focused on a narrower goal -- expansion of the seasonal Othello Farmers Market sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. This narrow goal was rapidly eclipsed by the emergence of a bolder set of visions and concepts endorsed by the community – the Market District/Food Makers’ Incubator -- which is the subject of this Planning Study.
This Planning Study will pick up where the Feasibility Study left off, to concentrate on site acquisition and the incubator and commercial kitchen components of the project. Although an expanded farmers’ market and community plaza are important to Othello’s quality of life, there will be greater long-term economic development, diversification, and entrepreneurial outcomes generated from the incubator and commercial kitchen, which is why those components form the core of this Planning Study.
CONTRACT BUDGET AND FUND SOURCES
A maximum of $66,667 is available for this contract for all Consultant costs including fees, materials, travel and any other expenses. The sources of funding are a $50,000 planning grant to the City of Othello from the Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB) within the Washington State Department of Commerce and $16,667 in matching cash from the City of Othello.
See the RFP document for more information.
Categories:
| First Name | Last Name | Company | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allison | Esvelt | Esvelt Environmental Engineering | Allison@esvelt.com | 5099263049 |