Pulse: Project News for the Week of December 21, 2020
Arizona Espire Sports is planning to build the Espire Sports & RV Resort in Prescott Valley. The project includes a two-story, 58,000-sq-ft building containing ten indoor pickleball courts, a multipurpose sport court, locker rooms, restaurant and bar, fitness rooms and conference rooms, as well as an outdoor patio and balcony; a 5,600-sq-ft outdoor game yard; ten covered outdoor pickleball courts; 75 RV spaces; 29 550-sq-ft rental casitas and 12 650-sq-ft rental cottages. Low Mountain Construction has been chosen as the general contractor. The project is valued at between $25 million and $50 million. Espire Sports, 240 S. Montezuma St., Prescott, 86303. DR#20-00766749.
District of Columbia The Trust for the National Mall, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Park Service are planning to reconstruct and rehabilitate the Tidal Basin, a 107-acre landscape that contains the Jefferson, FDR and Martin Luther King Jr. memorials, as well as 3,000 cherry trees. The Tidal Basin is threatened by the effects of climate change, experiencing subsidence, daily flooding and crumbling infrastructure. The work will include rebuilding of the sinking sea wall, as well as drainage and sewer lines and water lines, walkways, and replanting and relocation of greenery. Design proposals from five landscape architects are currently under review. The Ideas Lab, a platform for the exchange of solutions and approaches between designers, stakeholders, and the public, is also in process. The cost of implementing the project could be as much as $500 million. Trust for the National Mall, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C., 20004. DR#20-00764909.