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Design Team Selection Process

Selection of the project design team will be conducted through  Request for Qualifications (403.49 kB)(RFQ) and Request for Proposals (RFP) processes and determined by a committee consisting of a San Diego Convention Center Corporation consultant, a Port representative and professional architects.

The design process will:

• Solicit appropriate architectural design firms to respond to a RFQ
• Select design teams to respond to an RFP
• Select a team as project architect to develop the preliminary project design

Per the terms of San Diego Convention Center Corporation's lease, the project design must comply with the following objectives:

• Meet the programming needs and requirements of the Convention Center expansion
• Minimize adverse impacts from bulk, massing and scale of the project
• Facilitate lateral movement of the public
• Activate the waterfront
• Create and maintain market viability for retail
• Maximize pedestrian and vehicular access to Embarcadero Marina Park South
• Create and maintain public access to the expansion hotel
• Maximize market viability of the expansion hotel