10-GRAND THEATER PRESENTATION BY DENNEY ARCHITECTS

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ynenzo�andum TO: City Council John Godwin, City Manager FROM: Shawn Napier, P.E., Director of Engineering, Planning & Development SUBJECT: GRAND THEATER PRESENTATION BY DENNEY ARCHITECTS DATE: 6-3-2013 BACKGROUND: The Grand Theater has been discussed at several City Council meetings. A contract with Denney Architects was approved at the January 28, 2013 City Council meeting. The contract was for the design of the fa�ade, front entry, fire wall and roof of the Grand Theater. At the August 13t", 2012 meeting, council gave direction with moving forward on the idea of replacing the roof and roof shell structure over the existing entrance lobby area (approximately 18-feet by 70-feet) and rebuilding the fa�ade in conjunction with the Leadership in Lamar County Class Project. The 2"a floor of the front entry area has been rebuilt, in order to assist with design measurements of the building. During last year's Festival of Pumpkins event people had a chance to sign up for a tour of the Grand Theater. Staff had to add tours to accommodate all the people who wanted to tour the building. STATUS OF ISSUE: Mr. Paul Denney of Denney Architects will be sharing a presentation on the Grand Theater at the June l Ot" City Council meeting. The next few proposed working steps at the Grand Theater would be to prepare two different bid packages. The first package will include the roof replacement. The second bid will propose to reconstruct the front fa�ade above the canopy and rebuild the sign. The front fa�ade work includes a porcelain banding that was previously demolished. The porcelain banding has a 10 to 12 week fabrication time. This would need to be ordered in advance of the fa�ade work. The Leadership Lamar County Class raised funds for the fa�ade work. The fa�ade was broken into two phases separated by the canopy. Phase I would be everything above the canopy and phase II below the canopy. Any Leadership in Lamar County Class money remaining after phase I would be applied to phase II. The City of Paris was not awarded a second EPA Brownfield cleanup grant. This would leave the remainder of the cleanup work to be accomplished. This work will need to be funded from another source. A group of Grand Theater enthusiasts are still interested in refurbishing the Grand Theater into a usable community facility. Several members of this group may be at the City Council meeting to share their vision for the Grand Theater. BUDGET: These projects will be funded from the law suit settlement ($80,000) with 911 Restoration and funds raised by the Leadership Lamar County Class ($74,770). RECOMMENDATION: Discussion only. �•