Aspire APEX/ASSA | New Construction + Office Conversion
Project Executive: Doug Giffin
Project Manager: Nicolas Romano
Project Sponsor/Operator:
Aspire Public Schools (TK-12)
Max Enrollment: 1,176 students
Construction Type: Tilt-up concrete and office conversion
Project Delivery Method: Design Build MEP
Contractor: Ascent Builders
Architect: Studio Bondy Architecture
Structural Engineer: SEI
Size: 79,900 SF 2-story building on 4.3 acres
Status: Delivered Fall 2023, punch-list in progress
Total Project Cost: $37.6M ($471/SF) – Hard and Soft
Campus managed/is managing all aspects of the project development from ground lease through the current construction.
Approvals included negotiations and management for a ground lease with the Housing Authority, HUD demolition/disposition and commensurate public benefit, along with City of Stockton AUP, Design Review, CEQA analysis, parking reduction, Director’s Determination, and Minor Amendment to the AUP.
The project also included a seismic upgrade and renovation of an existing multi-purpose building and a two-phase incubator campus with five portable buildings.
Approvals for the incubator campus included a Temporary Activity Permit (TAP), TAP Major Amendment, Design Review, and CEQA. Campus LLC prepared the Traffic Management Plan and Good Neighbor Handbook.
We managed the process to limit project cost escalation from the start of 2021 through contract signing in May of 2022 to $880k or 2.3%. This was in a year and a half that experienced double digit escalations. A large part of this came through our negotiated contract reduction of $1.2M with the general contractor and sub-contractors during the 3-4 weeks before the signing of the GMP contract.