c. Project Organization & Management
The Gateway Planning Team will be deployed as follows:
Gateway Planning Group
Scott Polikov will serve as Project Manager and lead town planner. He will devote
approximately 20 percent of his time to this project.
Jay Narayana will serve as the Deputy Project Manager and will be responsible
for day-to-day communication between team members and between the team
and the client. She will support the planning tasks and lead the creation of the
development standards to implement the plan and will devote approximately 20
percent of her time to this project.
Milosav Cekic will serve as lead designer for the design workshop and will be
available onsite to prepare for and undertake the design workshop with the
Design Team. He will devote approximately 15 percent of his time to this project.
Mike Huston will serve as urban designer for the design workshop and will be
available onsite to prepare for and undertake the design workshop with the
Design Team. He will devote approximately 15 percent of his time to this project.
Frank Pakuszewski will support the real estate market analysis, affordable
housing, and public-private partnership tasks. He will devote approximately 15
percent of his time on this project.
Kimley-Horn
Joe Willhite will lead the infrastructure assessment and planning efforts and will
devote approximately 15 percent of his time for this project.
Andrew Howard will be responsible for street design recommendations to support
pedestrian connectivity and mixed use. He will devote approximately 15 percent
of his time to this project.
Chuck Reedstrom will lead the parking analysis and planning; he will devote
approximately 10 percent of his time to this project.
Lee Ann Dixon will lead in traffic operations analysis and provide support for the
related stakeholder and public involvement efforts. She will devote approximately
10 percent of her time to this project.
TXP
Jon Hockenyos of TXP, Inc. will lead the market analysis, fiscal impact analysis
and economic implementation efforts and will devote approximately 15 percent of
his time for this project.
The Guess Group
John L. Guess III will lead the community involvement, affordable housing, and
related implementation tasks. He will devote approximately 15 percent of his time
to this project.
John F. Guess, Jr. will support the community involvement, affordable housing,
and related implementation tasks. He will devote approximately 10 percent of his
time to this project.
Jene L. Cash will support the community involvement, affordable housing, and
related implementation tasks. She will devote approximately 15 percent of his
time to this project.
DTECH Services
Demetrius J. Cook will lead the environmental assessment of the Gillette Street
site. He will devote approximately 5 percent of his time to this project.
David Pomerantz will support the environmental assessment of the Gillett Street
site. He will devote approximately 5 percent of his time to this project.
The Gateway Planning Group is known for its capacity to implement and deliver projects
within budget and in a responsive way for its clients. The key is that we work with a
group of select firms on an ongoing basis.
We believe that one of the keys to successful management is to work within the client’s
framework, especially when multiple beneficiaries are also involved such as is the case
here including HGAC, City of Houston, Fourth Ward TIRZ, Housing Authority of the City
of Houston, Federal Reserve Bank, Metro, and other neighborhood stakeholders. We
will work with the project steering committee early in the project to ensure that not only
will H-GAC staff feels that execution of the work program will be effective; but also, to
make sure that the other beneficiaries of the work believe through proper project
management that they have a contemporaneous stake in the outcome.
The Gateway Planning Team has been tailored to be a very flat organization so that
those responsible for the work will be undertaking the work. In this context, the Gateway
Planning Team will be organized as follows:
(Jay to provide flow chart to be included here)