STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Growing
AGENDA DATE: May 28, 2025
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):|910|DEPARTMENT: Department of Convention and Event Services
EXECUTIVE: Robin Bentley
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a Construction Manager at Risk Agreement with Beck Azteca a joint venture, best value proposer of two, for pre-construction and construction services for the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas Master Plan renovation and reconstruction of the Dallas Memorial Auditorium (Arena) - Component Three to provide for (1) pre-construction services for the Project for a fee in the amount not to exceed $519,755.00; (2) construction management services at a rate of three and eighty-five hundredths percent (3.85%) of the cost of work included as part of the total guaranteed maximum price within the total project construction budget of $200 million; and (3) an increase of appropriations in an amount not to exceed $519,755.00 in the Convention Center Construction Fund - Not to exceed $519,755.00 - Financing: Convention Center Construction Fund
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BACKGROUND
In 2018, the Department of Convention and Event Services (CES) engaged in a multi-departmental solicitation for a development process to determine a path-forward for correcting long-time deferred maintenance of the 2 million square foot Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas (KBHCCD). The solicitation phase for master planning understood that the demand among convention centers continues to grow for high-quality exhibition and meeting space, especially within the medical, scientific, and technical fields, and that the existing KBHCCD was losing ground at a rate that was impacting the local economy. Market analyses conducted in prior years pointed to several factors, in addition to the KBHCCD's aging infrastructure, that were impacting the center's salability.
Included among those factors were mobility, transportation, surrounding amenities, and over...
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