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By the end of July, MDHA will select one of threse teams that have bid to handle the genera contracting work for the Music City Center conventio facility that willanchor downtown'x SoBro -- or South of Broadway -- district. The projecy is estimated at about $340 million but overall costws tied to the project couldapproach $600 million. A key componenty in the agency's award of the constructionh contract will be the participation of minorituowned businesses, both directly via the winning team and indirectly through contributing There are six black-owned builders represented on the three teams placing bids.
MDHA is tightlipped regardingt the three teams and declined to comment regarding specifixc characteristics and qualifications that might make one team win over the For instance, officials would not discuss issues such as bonding, number of high-end jobs completed or number of employees of the minority-ownerd companies. "We can't reveal or discuses teams who have proposed untikl after a decision hasbeen made," says Terroi Woodmore, MDHA spokeswoman. Woodmores says MDHA has established a goalof "2 0 percent diversity business enterprise (DBE) participation" for the project.
That figure woulxd be reached, in part, through Each of the three teams that have bid to securs the convention center constructioj contract hasa Nashville-based entity and a minority-owned firm located eitherr in Nashville or Middle Tennessee. Nashville-based , Indianapolis-based , Atlanta-basecd and Gallatin-based Russell and SRS are minorit owned, with the forme being the nation's largest black-owneed general contractor. Nashville-based , Bethesda, Md.-baseds Clark Construction Group, Knoxville-based East s and the Nashvilled firmsand . The latter three are black-owned and operatecd and have created LLC forthe Nashville-based , Sweden-based and black-owned local firm LLC.
The trio woulx undertake its construction of the center as Musi CityBuilders LLC. Five of the six minority firms have worked to varying degrees on projects and with clientx that include and Peabody Commonsat (Don Hardinb Group); McGhee Tyson Airport Terminalp in Knoxville, LP Field, and the (Easy Tennessee Mechanical Contractors). Also represented are the United Methodist Churcg General Counsel for Financeand Administration, the Armans Building in Franklin and the Maternal Fetal Groupo Plaza in Midtown (Hermosa Construction); Father Ryan High Schoool athletic complex and (Pinnacle); and the Tennessede Air National Guard and Memphis Housing Authority (SRS). Willie Russell, president of H.J.
Russell, has spentr significant time in Nashville, most recentlyu to speak to a group at the Schradetr Lane Churchof Christ. Russell outlines how his company and team would work to includes local minority participation in themassivde project. H.J. Russell has worked in the past on three convention centers. Dale Randels, Pinnacle presideng and CEO, says his team is "committed to a 30 perceng minority participation," in addition to the 15 percentg Pinnaclewould deliver. Don Hardin, a graduate, says his companyu has managedabout $15 million in project s each of the past few years.