{"id":11381,"date":"2023-07-27T18:41:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=11381"},"modified":"2023-07-27T18:41:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T23:41:14","slug":"framingham-seeks-land-for-community-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2023\/07\/27\/around-town\/framingham-seeks-land-for-community-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Framingham Seeks Land For Community Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Got land? <\/strong>Framingham seeks land for Community Center, (image by David Newton, CC share-alike<\/a>)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> -- The City of Framingham has extended an open, informal invitation to landowners<\/strong> in the Framingham interested in making their land or existing buildings available for the site of a future Community Center<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published as a Request for Information<\/strong> (RFI)<\/em> the City is seeking information that could potentially lead to a future Request for Proposals (RFP)<\/em> or partnership solicitation for the proposed new facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The RFI describes the City's preferences for a facility large enough to accommodate a multi-generational \/ multi-use \/ disability-accessible Community Aquatics Center<\/strong> with an Olympic\/competition-size swimming pool<\/strong>, equipped with spectator seating, wireless pace clocks to host swimming and diving training, practices and competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RFI also describes a Community Field House<\/strong> with a minimum 100,000 sq. ft. synthetic turf field<\/strong>, track<\/strong>, multi-use courts<\/strong>, bleacher seating<\/strong>, ample parking<\/strong> and other amenities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proposed field should be able to support lacrosse<\/strong> (men\u2019s and women\u2019s)<\/em>, soccer<\/strong> (men\u2019s and women\u2019s)<\/em>, field hockey<\/strong>, indoor track and field<\/strong> events, and serve as a venue<\/strong> to hold graduations<\/strong> or other large-scale community even<\/strong>ts or celebrations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Complete information about the proposed project can be found on the City's website, listed as: Bid #8153<\/strong> - Development Guidelines for a Community Center in the City of Framingham<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RFI responses are due by Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at 10:00 A.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any RFI response must be filed online using the City's Vendor Registry<\/strong><\/a>, (an online municipal bidding management system)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For additional information, or help using the Vendor Registry, contact Amy Putney, Procurement Administrator, City of Framingham at: 508-532-5407 or by email to: alp@framinghamma.gov<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FRAMINGHAM, MA — The City of Framingham has extended an open, informal invitation to landowners in the Framingham interested in making their land or existing buildings available for the site of a future Community Center. Published as a Request for Information (RFI) the City is seeking information that could potentially lead to a future Request for Proposals… [read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[5145,5146],"class_list":["post-11381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-town","tag-framingham-community-center","tag-swimming-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11383,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11381\/revisions\/11383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}