September DUSPA Meeting

Key Discussion Points
9/1/2011 DUSPA Meeting
Letter from USA to Phil Washington, Executive Director of RTD
Jerry Glick summarized the letter as addressing two issues:
1. The need to determine the ongoing management/operations of the Wynkoop Plaza, which he said was an open issue still to be resolved.
2. USA’s request for a public meeting for presentation of the two proposals for restoring the historic Union Station, which he said had just been scheduled and thereby the issue was resolved. He did not mention a place or date.
Bill Sirois of RTD said that he’d talked to Anne Hayes of USA and mentioned that the request for proposal had asked for the proposers’ recommendations for management and operations of the Wynkoop Plaza. He said that a meeting with Phil Washington was being arranged.
Other discussion items
1. The project is 46% complete, with the LRT being 98.6% complete, the bus box 46.8% complete, and the streets and plazas 50% complete. Project completion is now projected for March 16, 2014, slightly ahead of the original schedule.
2. $211,000,000 of the $488,000,000 budget has been paid out to date.
3. The project team is monitoring for any settlement of the historic station due to the completion of the bus box and the drilling of dewatering wells to low the water table. Shoring walls and a tie-back structure are being constructed to prevent any settlement.
4. The artist for the project selected by RTD is Kevin Curry. He will present his ideas to DUSPA at the November 2011 meeting.
5. The pedestrian bridge at the north wing building is in final design review.