On Sept. 3, the city issued a request for proposal (RFP) for qualified firms to submit a plan for coordinating the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the Historic Santa Fe Depot. Responses to the RFP were due on Sept. 28. The responses received were “thoughtfully prepared and illustrate that the Historic Santa Fe Depot has tremendous potential to be repurposed into a centerpiece of the City’s Station Square Transit Village,” according to Oliver Chi, Monrovia City Manager.
The city has allocated $1.5 million from restricted Gold Line Construction Authority funds for use towards the rehabilitation of the Historic Santa Fe Depot. Based on the grant funding timelines, a project partner must be identified before the end of the calendar year. To that end, staff is currently assessing and analyzing the proposals received and they plan on bringing forward for city council consideration a recommended project partner in November 2015.