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Pictured above: Jostin Construction served as Construction Manager on 3CDC's Academy Lofts project.
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TriVersity has served as General Contractor on nine 3CDC projects, including Imagination Alley.
3CDC places a strong emphasis on meaningful inclusion in its projects and developing relationships with minority- and woman-owned construction companies. 3CDC takes the following steps to achieve this goal:
- Retain an inclusion consultant to assist in building relationships with contractors and to help identify inclusion opportunities
- Host mixers to introduce minority-owned subcontractors to General Contractors (GCs) and Construction Managers (CMs) and allow them to share information about upcoming projects
- Advance outreach to minority-owned companies to make them aware of upcoming projects and ensure they have access to plans and other bidding materials
- Maintain a database of subcontractors that is provided to all GCs and CMs in advance of bidding 3CDC projects
- Require all GCs and CMs to demonstrate best efforts to achieve meaningful inclusion when bidding 3CDC projects; this includes documenting outreach and follow-up efforts and exploring other opportunities to increase participation (such as subdividing scopes to align with the capacity of smaller firms)
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The 3CDC projects listed in the chart below have been led by a minority-owned (more specifically, Black-owned) construction management or general contracting company in recent years. On several other projects, minority-owned businesses were part of the primary construction team, working alongside the CM or GC, including Megen at Washington Park and Ziegler Park and TriVersity at Music Hall.
Project | Contractor | Hard Costs |
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Court Street Condos | Triversity | $5,296,441 |
Perseverance | Triversity | 2,614,730 |
1400 Vine Street Lot | Triversity | 1,120,450 |
15th & Vine | Triversity | 11,564,402 |
Memorial Hall | Triversity | 5,833,021 |
Ghost Baby | Triversity | 793,240 |
City Gospel Mission | Triversity | 8,643,600 |
MEINERS & BEHLEN | Triversity | 6,258,276 |
Imagination Alley | Triversity | 659,351 |
Fountain Square | Megen | 27,559,429 |
Elm Industries Office | Megen | 4,361,932 |
Academy Lofts | Jostin | 1,090,644 |
The Standard | Jostin | 305,000 |
Cinema | Jostin | 524,000 |
The Annie | Triversity | 8,000,000 |
Total | $84,624,516 |
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TriVersity oversaw construction on the renovation of historic Memorial Hall, an $11.2 million project completed in 2016.
Ensuring meaningful inclusion is also a focus at the sub-contactor level. 3CDC has strong relationships with several minority-owned sub-contractors, who it directly invites to bid on its projects. The organization encourages each of its general contractors to hire minority- and woman-owned businesses as sub-contractors on its projects as much as possible.
Based on these efforts, 3CDC has worked with over 50 minority-owned sub-contractors in the past several years, highlighted by strong inclusion numbers at several projects:
Project | Project Cost | % MBE Participation |
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KROGER ON THE RHINE | $94 million | 22% |
15th & Vine | $19.5 million | 33% |
MEINERS & BEHLEN | $15.8 million | 35% |
Elm Industries Office | $7 million | 45% |
84.51° Headquarters | $139 million | 23% |