The CAN Board of Directors is getting a lot of questions on the status of construction at Cambridge Harbor and the validity of the CAN survey on the Cambridge YMCA moving to the Harbor. In response, we asked the CAN CWDI Subcommittee to put together a project chart based on the latest CWDI information available; and, asked Kim Miller, our survey expert, to explain the differences between the Y and CAN surveys. For those of you interested, please see the attached documents.
Charles McFadden
Category Archives: Waterfront & Strategic Development
CAN Community Assessment – CWDI & the YMCA
On Friday,May 17,2024, CAN closed a controlled survey conducted within Cambridge regarding the relocation of the YMCA and Y Headquarters to the Cambridge Harbor. Below you will find a presentation displaying the results that were shared on Monday, May 20th at the City Council meeting. These results and the full analysis were also emailed to the leadership of City Council, CWDI, and the YMCA.
CAN CWDI/YMCA Community Survey Closes Friday May 17
The CAN CWDI/YMCA Community Survey will close Fri, May 17, 2024. There have been 516 responses as of today. Please take a few minutes to respond if you have not already done so. Your opinion matters…
Survey Purpose:
The purpose of this survey is to assess the community’s opinion regarding the potential for a non-profit nonrevenue generating business, like the Cambridge YMCA, to occupy a portion of the CWDI waterfront property. Our understanding is the occupancy would also include the relocation of the “YMCA of the Chesapeake” Corporate Headquarters, which is currently located on Dover Street in Easton, MD.
Your feedback is important and confidential. Thank you in advance for participating.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CAN_Y_Survey
CWDI Community Update – April 18
CWDI Message – March 2024
CWDI Updates – Site Plan and Bricks & Trees – October 2022
From: Matt Leonard
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 4:19 AM
Subject: CWDI – Cambridge Harbor REOI Additional Information
We appreciate the sincere interest from the many of you who plan to respond to CWDI’s Cambridge Harbor Request for Expressions of Interest (REOI), and to those who already have. We believe we are well on track to identifying the various partners we will need to bring the Cambridge Harbor vision to reality.
Based on the contacts and discussions I have had with many of you, and in keeping with our promise to continue advancing the project, attached you will find additional information in the form of the next-level concept design for Cambridge Harbor. This version overlays the Concept Mater Site Plan included in the REOI issued on July 15, 2022.
This additional information is provided to help you focus your submissions due by close of Business on November 15, 2022. I cannot overstate that this is a concept, with general building types shown in a more vertical fashion and potential yields for each type estimated based on this version. The detailed final design and constructions will be devised by CWDI, its consultants, and you, if you are selected as one of our development partners identified through the REOI process – investor, developer, general contractor, retailer, food & beverage, or other end user.
To those of you who have already submitted: first a special “thank you;” second, you do not need to resubmit, or resubmit in whole. You have responded as we had asked and we understand you well enough. However, at your discretion, feel free to simply send additional information for us to add to your original submittal if you so choose.
To those of you who plan on submitting: I again direct your attention to section XI of he REOI. This section describes the general information we want from you. Your submission does not need to be overly technical or detailed. In short: tell and show us who you are, your desired position is in the Cambridge Harbor project, what you have done successfully in the past in that same capacity, and that you have the capacity to do it again with us. As mentioned above, CWDI is searching for the right partners to move forward with collaboratively to the benefit of all of those eventually involved and in keeping with the community’s Cambridge Harbor vision.
As always, feel free to contact me to discuss this further.
Thank you,
Matt
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Matt Leonard
Executive Director
Cambridge Waterfront Development, Inc.
(434) 579-0374
Cambridge Harbor Revised Site Plan – June 9, 2022
Cambridge Waterfront Development Branding – April 28, 2022
Cambridge Waterfront Survey Results – Wed, Mar 26, 6 pm
Cambridge Waterfront Public Input Survey results will be presented to and discussed by City Council at a work session to be held online on next Wednesday, March 24 at 6pm. BCT, the company that conducted the survey on behalf of CWDI, will do the presentation. 350 people responded to the survey and made over 1500 comments. Some of the comments are shared in the presentation. Please note that all suggestions made in the survey responses are under consideration, and the fact that a suggestion is not included in the sample comments does not mean that any suggestions are off the table for the CWDI.