Leveraging the Power of Private Funding


Te new Long Beach Civic


Center project has generated plenty of excitement since the city and port decided to leverage the power of private investment to deliver the public project via a P3 procurement. Tat decision came on the heels of the highly successful Long Beach Courthouse project, an award-winning P3 project also delivered by Clark Construction Group and its development entity, Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate, in 2013 for the California Administrative Office of the Courts. Te P3 delivery model allows


for critical infrastructure projects to come to life years ahead of traditional methods. Tis is a key advantage of the P3 process and shifts the risk for much-needed projects from the public to the private sector. Te owners selected the


development consortium of Plenary- Edgemoor Civic Partners (including Plenary, Edgemoor, and maintenance partner Johnson Controls) for the new Civic Center complex. Under the P3 agreement, the private developer will design, finance, build, operate and maintain the new civic center for 40 years. Te City of Long Beach will pay a lease payment over that time, while the Port will pay its portion upon project delivery.


Transforming Downtown Long Beach


As the new centerpiece of downtown Long Beach, the civic


center project continues the transfor- mation that this booming Southern California port city has undergone in recent years as ongoing development has redrawn its urban landscape. Te project’s design creates a


more accessible civic center area by reopening two streets to auto traffic that had been cut off since the 1970s, when the existing government campus was built. First Street will bisect the complex as a pedestrian walkway and plaza. Te final mixed-use phase of the project will remove the existing city hall and replace it with a variety of amenities including retail, restaurants and high-rise residential, all designed to make the entire public/private complex a downtown destination. Designed and built above code to


ensure a high level of seismic resil- iency, the project is targeting LEED Gold status. A “business continuity objective” that is built into the contract aims to ensure the primary structures maintain a high level of functionality following an earthquake. Backed by a rigorous engineering approach that analyzes how the building would perform in a seismic event, the measure is relatively new to the institutional project marketplace, according to Marc Kersey, Senior Vice President with Clark and the executive in charge of design/construction on the Long Beach Civic Center project. “We’ll likely see more of that in the P3 arena [in the future] where building owners are looking for assurance that their buildings will perform beyond just a code compliant building,” he said.


Project At a Glance: Long Beach Civic Center Project


P3 Team: Plenary-Edgemoor Civic Partners (Plenary, Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate, and maintenance partner Johnson Controls)


Owner: City of Long Beach Port of Long Beach


Design-Build General Contractor: Clark Construction Group, LLP


Design Team: SOM- Skidmore Owings & Merrill (architectural, structural) Nabih Youssef Associates (structural) Syska Hennessy Group Inc (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) KPFF Consulting Engineers (civil)


Phase 1 Contract: $400 Million


Phase 1 Completion: Mid-2019


Fast Track Design-Build Delivery


Clark Construction officially


broke ground on the new Civic Center project in June of 2016, just five months after design had gotten underway. Te project’s integrated delivery model has helped fast track the job, which officially topped out in February 2018.


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