STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Growing
AGENDA DATE: June 25, 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 HJ Russell - Phillips May - STSW, A Joint Venture, best value proposer of three, for pre-construction and construction services for the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas Master Plan Component Four for renovation and reconstruction of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters to provide for (1) pre-construction services for the Project for a fee in the amount not to exceed $695,363.00; and (2) construction management services at a rate of three percent of the cost of work included as part of the total guaranteed maximum price within the total project construction budget of $200 million. 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 two 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 overall land use surrounding the facility. The exploration of facility data demonstrated that, as a facility constructed in five phases, over several decades...
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