COLUMBUS, Ind. — Columbus is moving forward with a major project for Columbus and Bartholomew County’s Bicentennial.
The Columbus Redevelopment Commission has selected Hitchcock Design Group and American Structurepoint to complete the preliminary design phase for the Bicentennial 1821 Trail with a not-to-exceed amount of $81,700.
Redevelopment director Heather Pope said that the two firms decided to partner together. Hitchcock is the lead designer for the riverfront project, and American Structurepoint is the lead design on the multifamily urban grocer project being developed by Flaherty & Collins.
“They can come to this project with a lot of knowledge already,” she said. “So Hitchcock Design Group has the plans for the west side, and Flaherty & Collins will have the plans for the east side. So how those trails intersect and connect to those two separate projects, that work’s kind of already been done. So we feel like there’s some savings there.”
Pope said that this agreement is just for the design and schematic design phase of the project and includes a fixed fee of $79,700.
She said that this first phase will include interviewing “key stakeholders” such as the historical society and the bicentennial committee, gathering information, and creating a design, based on their findings, for “how to best represent the last 200 years of Columbus and Bartholomew County.”
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