Post by district5 on Nov 1, 2012 18:23:34 GMT -5
St. Bernard readies RFP for $3M service complex
Business Courier by Jon Newberry, Staff Reporter
Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 11:21am EDT
Facing an August 2014 deadline to clear the way for the expansion of Interstate 75, the village of St. Bernard is preparing a request for bids on a new $3 million service department complex early next year.
Paul Myers, the city’s development director, said its working on a $5 million bond issue with Fifth Third Bank to finance that facility and a streetscaping program for its Vine Street business district.
The city has to be out of its current service and fire department facilities – on either side of I-75 – by August 2014, Myers said. The Ohio Department of Transportation already owns both sites. The service department will move up Vine Street to a city-owned site adjacent to Procter & Gamble Co.’s new pilot plant for feminine care products. The land was formerly the site of a NuMaid margarine plant that closed in the 1990s.
Also in the works are plans by St. Bernard to build a new $6 million public safety complex – to house its fire and police departments – at the northeast corner of Vine Street and Mitchell Avenue, Myers said. Just down the street from Roger Bacon High School, the building would serve as a gateway into St. Bernard.
The St. Bernard Community Improvement Corp. already acquired all of the land for the public safety building. Requests for bids on that project should also go out early next year, pending approval of bond financing, Myers said.
The I-75 expansion has created a “golden opportunity” for St. Bernard to redevelop its current police department site as part of a dramatic transformation of its Vine Street business district, Myers said.
“You’ve got to go for the gusto, or it will fail,” he said. “You can’t half-step it,”
Business Courier by Jon Newberry, Staff Reporter
Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 11:21am EDT
Facing an August 2014 deadline to clear the way for the expansion of Interstate 75, the village of St. Bernard is preparing a request for bids on a new $3 million service department complex early next year.
Paul Myers, the city’s development director, said its working on a $5 million bond issue with Fifth Third Bank to finance that facility and a streetscaping program for its Vine Street business district.
The city has to be out of its current service and fire department facilities – on either side of I-75 – by August 2014, Myers said. The Ohio Department of Transportation already owns both sites. The service department will move up Vine Street to a city-owned site adjacent to Procter & Gamble Co.’s new pilot plant for feminine care products. The land was formerly the site of a NuMaid margarine plant that closed in the 1990s.
Also in the works are plans by St. Bernard to build a new $6 million public safety complex – to house its fire and police departments – at the northeast corner of Vine Street and Mitchell Avenue, Myers said. Just down the street from Roger Bacon High School, the building would serve as a gateway into St. Bernard.
The St. Bernard Community Improvement Corp. already acquired all of the land for the public safety building. Requests for bids on that project should also go out early next year, pending approval of bond financing, Myers said.
The I-75 expansion has created a “golden opportunity” for St. Bernard to redevelop its current police department site as part of a dramatic transformation of its Vine Street business district, Myers said.
“You’ve got to go for the gusto, or it will fail,” he said. “You can’t half-step it,”