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HomeMy WebLinkAbout35. Oshkosh Corporation UpdateCity ofw� Oshkosh TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the Common Council Mark Rohloff, City Manager FROM: Allen Davis, Community Development Director DATE: October 18, 2018 RE: Oshkosh Corporation Global Headquarters Construction, Public Improvements, Tax Increment Finance Plan, Timeline PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS Construction of Westfield and the related utilities continue as planned. Paving is planned to begin next week, with all paving completed by the end of November, and restoration completed by December. This schedule is in accordance with the Development Agreement. The stormwater management excavation has started and will continue as long as the weather cooperates. The Koeller Street extension construction is scheduled to start in 2019, although utility extensions may start in the winter, if weather permits. The WisDOT-TEA grant of $787,500 that was recently awarded will help offset costs for the public infrastructure improvements. Staff continues to work on grant administration and allocate the grant dollars for the appropriate grant eligible activities for reimbursement. The WisDNR staff has reported that the City has been tentatively awarded a riverwalk grant that City staff submitted back in May, 2018. The $793,247 grant will help build the riverwalk from I-41/Tribal Heritage Trail to the Oshkosh Corporation site, and in addition, extend the new riverwalk east to Punhoqua Street. The riverwalk grant would also add lights, bollards, and benches to match the existing riverwalk design. WisDNR reports that the final award will not be made until Joint Finance Committee approval in January, 2019. City staff was hoping the riverwalk design and permitting would be completed over the winter, bid in late winter, and construction of the riverwalk project would start in spring of 2019 with completion in the fall of 2019. To that end, staff had issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for engineering and design services for the riverwalk. The City received five responses. Staff will be reviewing the submissions in the next few weeks. City staff is working with WisDNR staff to ensure any surveying, engineering and permitting needed to be done prior to January, 2019 will be reimbursable. In the meantime, staff has directed AECOM to gather the necessary topography and other field work needed for final design and permitting, prior to any weather interfering with the survey work. City Hall, 215 Church Avenue P.O. Box 1130 Oshkosh, WI 54903-1 130 920.236.5000 http://www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us The City has also received a $255,000 Transportation Assistance Program (TAP) grant from WisDOT to help pay for the costs of extending the riverwalk trail from Punhoqua east through Rainbow Memorial Park. The construction of this segment of riverwalk could be constructed in 2021. This project would help implement the Rainbow Memorial Park Master Plan and connect the lakeshore riverwalk to Oshkosh Ave. and Sawyer Street. The Draft 2019-2023 CIP includes funding in 2020 for design services for Rainbow Memorial Park improvements and funding for these improvements in 2021 to coincide with the planned Riverwalk improvements through the park. City staff recently attended a TAP grant administration training session since the City has never received this type of grant before. TAX INCREMENT FINANCE PLANS The Common Council adopted both Tax Increment Finance #34 and #35 Plans on January 23, 2018. The Joint Review Board approved both TIF Plans on January 30, 2018. Private developers are working on plans for development in TID #35 along Oshkosh Ave. DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND OTHER AGREEMENTS Staff continues to work on the remaining agreements include easements for utilities and stormwater connections. This agreement is scheduled for consideration by the Council in November. A Landscape Maintenance Agreement that would assign maintenance responsibility for the City -owned land between the Oshkosh Corporation property and the proposed riverwalk to Oshkosh Corporation would also be needed, and should be approved after the final design of the riverwalk is completed. TIMELINE Inspection staff has issued the full building permit for Oshkosh Corporation's Global Headquarters' project. Inspection staff are on-site regularly for inspections. The Oshkosh Corporation contractor, Miron Construction, started mobilization for building construction on June 11, 2018. Erosion control practices are in place and excavation and grading work is on-going. Most foundation work is done. Crews continue to erect structural steel.