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City may hire firm to design youth sports complex
By KOSAKU NARIOKA
At the last council meeting on Sept. 30, Deer Park City Council recommended that the city hire a consulting firm, Bury Partners, for the planning and design of a multi-field youth sports complex on about 35 acres of land owned by the city at East Boulevard and 13th Street.
The city staff will negotiate a contract with the firm and bring it back to the council at a later date.
Ronald V. Crabtree, city manager, said the city staff will look at the market for tournaments to develop the design of the complex and has been working with the Economic Alliance Houston Port Region to have it analyze various tournament type activities for the city.
“That way, we’ll be able to give them better information on what the facility really need to look like,” the city manager said.
Bill Nicholson, managing principal of Land Design Partners, along with Craig Carpenter and Bill Pedersen of Bury + Partners, brought many panel exhibits that showed a variety of ways to design the complex for the activities the city is considering.
“Unfortunately the exhibits don’t represent any of your ideas or any of the community’s ideas or even staff ideas because we were working in a vacuum just to show you we know how to do this work,” Nicholson said. “There are hundred more different ways to apply these things to the site, based upon the decision that you all collectively make.”
Nicholson represented The Bury Family of Companies, which owns both Land Design Partners and Bury + Partners.
Crabtree said the representatives from Bury + Partners brought the same panel exhibits to an interview during the selection process, and that when the city staff asked them when they could go to work, they said they’ve “already begun that.”
Assistant City Manager Gary M. Jackson, who served on the city’s consulting firm selection committee along with the city manager and parks and recreation representatives, said in an informational memo for the council workshop that five firms submitted statements of qualifications for the project.
The city staff will negotiate a contract with the firm and bring it back to the council at a later date.
Ronald V. Crabtree, city manager, said the city staff will look at the market for tournaments to develop the design of the complex and has been working with the Economic Alliance Houston Port Region to have it analyze various tournament type activities for the city.
“That way, we’ll be able to give them better information on what the facility really need to look like,” the city manager said.
Bill Nicholson, managing principal of Land Design Partners, along with Craig Carpenter and Bill Pedersen of Bury + Partners, brought many panel exhibits that showed a variety of ways to design the complex for the activities the city is considering.
“Unfortunately the exhibits don’t represent any of your ideas or any of the community’s ideas or even staff ideas because we were working in a vacuum just to show you we know how to do this work,” Nicholson said. “There are hundred more different ways to apply these things to the site, based upon the decision that you all collectively make.”
Nicholson represented The Bury Family of Companies, which owns both Land Design Partners and Bury + Partners.
Crabtree said the representatives from Bury + Partners brought the same panel exhibits to an interview during the selection process, and that when the city staff asked them when they could go to work, they said they’ve “already begun that.”
Assistant City Manager Gary M. Jackson, who served on the city’s consulting firm selection committee along with the city manager and parks and recreation representatives, said in an informational memo for the council workshop that five firms submitted statements of qualifications for the project.
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