Article 3/28/08
STAKEHOLDERS RELEASE CITY RFP FOR HOD RENOVATION
The Community Stakeholders Group has obtained a copy of an RFP issued by the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) at a pre-proposal conference held at the Brooklyn Detention Center on March 28, 2008. The community was not notified of the RFP or the conference.

According to the RFP, the city intends to engage a firm by the end of July to design and execute an expansion of the HOD. In what may prove an empty exercise, the RFP repeats many of the requirements from a previous RFEI which garnered only one proposal. The Department of Corrections dismissed that proposal, Atlantic Gateway, as unacceptable.

From the RFP (emphasis added):
"The purpose of this project is to create additional housing for 720 inmates in twelve dormitories of sixty beds each; create space within the new addition and within the first three floors of the existing structure providing programmatic support and ancillary accommodations for the increased capacity; improve the existing structure's deteriorating facade; create continuous ground floor retail space within the existing jail space along Atlantic Avenue and relocate displaced jail functions elsewhere on site; and explore the prospect of incorporating parking within the confines of the site."

Click here to read the entire RFP

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Press Release 3/19/08
HOD COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS LAUNCH SITE

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