LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – Lubbock City Council has voted to approve a contract agreement that could shape the future of the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.
At a cost of $200,000, the city has hired the architectural and design firm TVS to create a conceptual design and determine the total project cost. Lubbock Mayor Mark McBrayer said this is a positive step forward in expanding the civic center.
“A thriving downtown is important to Lubbock, this is just a piece of it but it is a center piece of it,” McBrayer said.
Selection process
The city issued a request for qualifications earlier this year and received five proposals. McBrayer said the goal of finding a firm was to give city leaders a clearer picture of what the expanded civic center could look like and the potential cost.
“We got five good ones back, different city staff ranked them on a number of different qualifications,” McBrayer said. “Had they done things like this before, what was their experience, cost, various other factors, they rated those, and came forward with TVS as the one they thought was best able to do this.”
Funding approach
McBrayer said the expansion will not be paid for through general taxes but rather through the hotel occupancy act…