Category Archives: Waterfront & Strategic Development
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.
Cambridge Community Conversation – Wed, Feb 10, 7 pm – CWDI Watch Party & Survey Update
Update on Jan 21 CWDI Board Meeting
by Sharon Smith
I attended the January Cambridge Waterfront Development Inc. meeting via Zoom. There have been one-on-one conversations with four of the five new council members regarding this initiative. All conversations were productive and well-received. CWDI hopes to make a presentation at a February city council meeting, which will be open to the public. Approximately 250 responses were received for the BCT Designs survey conducted December 10th – January 20. The State continues to be involved and DHCD Secretary Holt remains committed to the the project. CWDI conducted most of the meeting in Closed Session to discuss potential proposals for uses of the property.
Update on Nov 19 CWDI Board Meeting
– by Sharon Smith
I attended the monthly meeting of CWDI yesterday and have a few updates. These updates are as I understood them.
Community Input: due to the covid restrictions CWDI will not be holding in-person meetings for community input as planned. Instead, they will post online a video and a questionnaire around December 10th. We will be able to add our comments to the questionnaire. It will be available for about a month, allowing everyone time to participate.
City Commissioners: CWDI will be offering a project update to the current city council at the December 14 meeting, unless they defer to the new council. An important question to be put before the council is approval of the port and gateway property transfer from the city to CWDI.
Peregrine Memory Care Facility: the reason for CWDI’s interest in the facility is that they have a mandate to seek economic development opportunities. The facility will not be on the water, but rather on the corner of the hospital property on Byrne Street (north? or east? corner). The facility is expected to create 65 – 80 jobs, with a payroll of $2-3 million and purchased goods and services of around $1 million. This allows the project to receive grants from the federal government for building-out the infrastructure for the entire site, which is projected to cost $8 million.
The meeting was then closed to the public as the Board went into closed session to discuss the proposals for businesses to locate on Sailwinds: RAR, Yacht Maintenance and Peregrine. None of the proposals under consideration are a done-deal.
CWDI Update – Oct 15, 2020
Sharon Smith, Chair of CAN’s Strategic Development Committee, provided the following report on the Oct 15th monthly meeting of Cambridge Waterfront Development Inc.
I attended CWDI’s monthly board meeting this morning. The agenda is attached. CWDI has/expects to receive $1.720M in State grants and is pursuing Federal economic development tax credits. High on the list of planned expenditures is a $300,000 promenade expansion for public access along the waterfront. BCT Design is under contract to assist with creating a conceptual master plan and marketing. Potential occupants of the property include a planned expansion of Yacht Maintenance, Peregrine Senior Living, and RAR brewery. The Peregrine project alone includes a $16M project cost and up to 100 employees and will occupy land on the edge of Sailwinds (not on the water). All funds received will be reinvested in the project for infrastructure development. Within the next two months CWDI will hold 7 – 8 public input sessions, which will be advertised online and in the Banner. The sessions will run approximately three hours each and participants will have the opportunity to work in small groups to offer suggestions on concept, design, development ideas, etc.