City Of Gilroy: Gilroy Receives Proposals For Hecker Pass Gateway Tourism And Recreation Development Opportunity

Press release from the City of Gilroy:

February 18, 2021

The City of Gilroy has received two development proposals to create a recreational tourism-based project at a 536-acre site located at the edge of Gilroy on Hecker Pass highway, a gateway to Highway 1 and Monterey Bay. 

The two proposals are:

• Select Contracts Submission https://www.cityofgilroy.org/DocumentCenter/View/11557/Bid-No-21-RFP-AD-454-Submission---Select-Contracts
• Imagine That Submission https://www.cityofgilroy.org/DocumentCenter/View/11556/Bid-No-21-RFP-AD-454-Submission---Imagine-That

The 536-acre project site is located at the edge of Gilroy at Highway 152, Hecker Pass Highway, a gateway to Highway 1 and the Monterey Bay. Currently, Gilroy Gardens, operated and managed by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, runs a family-oriented theme park on approximately 50 acres of the Project Site. There is an additional approximately 100 acres of unused or underutilized space at the base of sizable hillside property.

This press release was produced by the City of Gilroy. The views expressed here are the author’s own.