FORT WORTH-In December 2010, Trammell Crow Co. managing director Tom Finan submitted an expression of interest to the General Services Administration, indicating that his company was definintely interested in bidding on development of the Federal Aviation Administration's southwest regional headquarters. More than two years later, TCC and partner USAA Real Estate Co. are planning a September, 2013 groundbreaking for the 357,214-square-foot building, having beaten out four other competitors in the final round.
The six-story building will be situated in Alliance Park in north Fort Worth, and has an October, 2015 completion date. In addition to consolidating several FAA offices that are located throughout Fort Worth, the facility will be what's known as a devolution center for the FAA's headquarters in Washington, DC.
"In laymen's terms, it means that if DC were under attack, the FAA's headquarters would be in Fort Worth," explains Finan, who operates out of TCC's Washington, DC office. Finan's team worked with Trammell Crow's Dallas office – headed by Adam Saphier – to bid on, and ultimately win, the project.
Though the bidding process for the assignment took awhile, Finan tells GlobeSt.com that it was a fairly quick turnaround for a government job. TCC put in a follow-up bid for the project in December of 2011 and was awarded the development in late 2012. "It was a couple of years by the calendar and a year of intense competition," Finan says, creding the GSA procurement officer (Nancy Lopez) and the representing broker (Kelly Winn with Studley) for the success of the bid.
He goes on to say that the procurement process was run as a site-specific procurement in which the government puts the land under contract it wants, then solicits developers, architects and construction firms. Once the winning team is selected from bidders, "the first thing the winner has to do is take that assignment of contract, and buy the land," Finan says. "The selection of Fort Worth, and that specific portion of Fort Worth, had already been completed by GSA prior to the bidding competition."
This article is a first of a two-part series discussing the FAA southwest regional headquarters and Trammell Crow Co.'s involvement with it.
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