At long last, the members of the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority/Reinvestment Zone 10 (TIRZ) quietly celebrated the official beginning of the Northpark Improvement Project at their Aug. 8 meeting. Engineers from HNTB distributed an initial timeline to get things underway which begins with the contract execution (Aug. 8, 2019) and ends with putting the project out for bid (March 15, 2021).
View the project schedule here.
Board members voted to accept the contract with HNTB and also voted on several engagement agreements needed to get the project going as Ralph De Leon, TIRZ manager, said, “Today we are officially kicking off the Northpark Drive Project.”
Chairman Stan Sarman noted, with agreement from Houston City Councilmember Dave Martin and other TIRZ members, that the group wants to tighten up the timeline and get “shovels in the ground” significantly earlier than March of 2021.