Folks at the Deputy Mayor’s Office for Economic Development seem to be on track to pick a developer for the Hine Jr. High School site at 7th Street SE and Pennsylvania Avenue SE. “We expect to make a decision as soon as next week,” stated spokesman Sean Madigan. Just to refresh our August-saturated memories, the three […]
The National Leadership Campus was dropped as a Hine site bidder by the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, NLC member Paul Yandura confirmed. “We received the call yesterday. We knew we were up against professional for-profit developers and Hine was a longshot, but we decided to give it a shot […]
Councilman Tommy Wells tweeted today to expect a 30-45 day time frame for a selection for the Hine site developer once best and final offers from the bidding developers are processed. Wells’s estimates are based on his conversation with the Deputy Mayor’s staff, who ultimately control the clock and the timing of the final decision. […]
Last night I, as a member of Moms on the Hill, brought together three of the four would-be developers of the Hine Jr. High School site (a representative of National Leadership Campus was stuck in Minneapolis when his flight was delayed). Some of the questions asked pertained to potential partnerships with Tiger Woods Foundation and/or […]
Amid the flurry of talk, innuendo, community groups’ priority lists and information-gathering centered on the four proposals for development of the old Hine Jr. High school, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development listed its own criteria for selecting a candidate. “Perhaps the most important criteria — in no particular order […]