McDonogh No. 11 - RFP issued today calling for bids to relocate structure

Here's what appeared in the Times-Picayune today:

McDonogh No. 11 School Relocation University Medical Center New Orleans, Louisiana PROJECT NUMBER: 19-610-06B-04, Part 43 Complete Bidding Documents for this project are available in electronic form. They may be obtained without charge and without deposit from www.aeplans.com. Printed copies are not available from the Procurement Provider but arrangements can be made to obtain them through most reprographic firms. Plan holders are responsible for their own reproduction costs. Questions about this procedure shall be directed to the Procurement Provider at: Jacobs 1824 Palmyra Street New Orleans, LA 70112 Telephone: 318-794-2070 Fax: 504-837-5924 E-mail: robert.mayard@jacobs.com

This is a good step forward on the state's part - especially because the school was set to be demolished until an advocacy push a few months ago.  OPSB no longer owns the school, but the RFP is still functionally meaningless if:

- The destination site in the 2900 block of Tulane Avenue is not actually procured.
- The funding for the move is not airtight
- The various obstacles along the route up Tulane Avenue cannot be cleared in a timely fashion

I hope all those issues have been or will soon be resolved.  I'm also wondering what part of the building's lower floor will be removed in the process.

"in need of purging": State issues RFP for Charity Hospital Building

Once again, I don't believe the Section 106 consulting parties were specifically notified about this particular endeavor that makes up part of the effort to find an adaptive reuse for Charity Hospital.  The Programmatic Agreement in place requires notice to the consulting parties.

Here's the Request for Proposals:

This Request for Proposals (RFP) is issued by Interim LSU Public Hospital (herein referred to as the State or ILH) for the purpose of selecting a contractor to plan, manage and oversee the removal and disposal of all furniture, furnishings, supplies, equipment, records and rubbish from the Charity Hospital Building at 1532 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana and the Lapeyre & Miltenberg (L&M) Building at 1550 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. These buildings, destroyed as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, have not been used in their previous capacity since then and are in need of purging for any determined future state use.

I'm also curious as to when the State of Louisiana will hold the second Charity adaptive reuse public meeting mandated by the Programmatic Agreement.  The last one was held in mid-October 2010.