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The Recreation and Parks Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC) requests proposals from highly qualified and innovative design teams to develop a master plan for the 120-acre Airline Community Park. BREC seeks an ambitious master plan that outlines a bold vision for the future with a planning and design approach that emphasizes green infrastructure and resilience. The master plan should address storm water mitigation, preservation and provide the community in the southeastern portion of the parish with a unique world class community park. Currently Airline Highway Parkis designated as a Special Use Facility within BRECs Park System and is the annual site for the Greater Baton Rouge State Fair which is generally held over a period of 10 days in late October and early November. The rest of the year the property generally operates in a manner similarly to a Neighborhood Park with a playground, four youth baseball / softball fields, an air gun range, a large picnic pavilion, open lawn and wooded areas. Airline Community Park is also a Land and Water Conservation Fund Park(LWCF). BREC intends to convert the park from the Special Use Facility designation into a dynamic Community Park. One of the key features of the Master Plan will be a new BREC Recreation Center. The Recreation Center will also serve the region as a designated FEMA Safe Room. FEMA Safe Rooms are built to exceedingly high standards of building construction and are intended to provide near-absolute protection in extreme-wind events, including tornadoes and hurricanes as well as be sited to mitigate the likelihood of potential for flooding. When needed the Recreation Center will serve as a regional staging point and operations center for first responders and support personnel and must be able to operate -by power for lengths of time if required. The Recreation Center will be made available to serve in support of natural disaster responses but it will be a BREC facility with BREC programming at all other times.Other Community Park amenities that are being considered include a competitive baseball complex, multi-use athletic fields, native meadows, picnic pavilions, a splash pad, adventure playground, amphitheater, a new air gun range, kayak launch, hiking and nature trails and a maintenance facility. BREC intends to go through the public input process and the final project amenity program will be refined and finalized through the public engagement master plan process. One of BRECs primary objectives with the redesign of Airline Park is to implement green infrastructure practices, design for resilience and sustainability, implement nature-based stormwater management practices to help mitigate flood damage to properties in the watershed. The amenities shall be designed and sited so that the operation of the park and Recreation Center can continue to operate while certain portions of the park are inundated. Deadline for Proposers to send written inquiries Feb 5, 2020; 11:00 A.M CT. Deadline for BREC answer written inquiries via addenda Feb 11, 2020; 11:00 A.M CT Committee Review & Selection Period Feb 19 - March 6 Contract Negotiation March 6 -23 Selection of Professionals Recommendation to Commission March 24th Commission approval March 26, 2020 All inquiries and/or requests for clarification must be submitted by email no later than February 5th, 2020; 11:00 A.M CT. Requests for clarification received after this date will be discarded.Submit questions by email to: Lori Foreman, BREC Purchasing Department, (225)-272-9200 ext 522, lori.foreman@brec.org The method of contractor selection has not been determined at this time