CBEs Can Learn More About 3 Vacant to Vibrant DC Sites
Action Step 2 of Vacant to Vibrant DC is now underway—the DC
Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) has issued the first
three solicitations for Certified Business
Enterprises (CBEs) to bid on opportunities to rehabilitate vacant
properties into workforce housing. A pre-bid meeting will be held Friday, January 5, 2018, at 1 p.m., in DHCD's Housing Resource Center, 1800 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE.
Vacant to Vibrant DC, launched by Mayor Bowser
on December 15, is a five-point action plan that will transform DHCD’s vacant
property inventory into workforce housing and green space, as well as teach how
tiny homes can fit into the DC landscape. The initiative also will spur more $5
million in economic development for small businesses such as CBEs.
The following solicitations (Phase 1) are now
open to the CBE community:
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Doc358471: FY18-DHCD Rehabilitation of
Property, 850 19th Street NE
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Doc358477: FY18-DHCD Rehabilitation of
Property, 4404 Foote Street NE
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Doc358439: FY18-DHCD Rehabilitation of
Property, 202 36th Street SE
Site visits will occur on Tuesday, January 9, 2018.
The solicitation will close on Friday, January 12, 2018.
Other Vacant to Vibrant DC steps that will spur economic
development include an online auction of over 35 properties by Alex Cooper Auctioneers to
produce approximately 50 workforce housing units, and a request for
qualifications issued through the Housing Investment Platform of the DC Housing Finance Agency.
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