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This is a major high-value multi-phase opportunity. Opportunity includes new multifamily residential, hotel, commercial/retail, public spaces, street and circulation infrastructure, open space/parks, and utility upgrades. City seeking to incentivize Tier 2 mixed-use projects with hotel and commercial anchors. There will be large-scale needs for architects, engineers, civil designers, general contractors, landscape architects, financial/fiscal consultants (peer review of fiscal analyses mandated), environmental consultants, legal services (entitlements), and possible public art/placemaking services. Streets, new block patterns, bike/pedestrian infrastructure, parking structures, utilities, and landscaping are integral project elements. The adoption of new objective design standards and a tiered project system (to incentivize the most robust mix of uses) points to numerous opportunities for both prime and sub-contractors over several years. Inferred: This sets the foundation for RFPs, design competitions, and public-private partnership solicitations in the next 12–24 months. Affected property owner Merlone Geier Partners is already involved and will likely contract work, but significant scope will be available for external vendors.