The office building, which is said to be in pristine condition, will be updated to accommodate San Diego’s Development Services Department and reconfigured with a new main entrance and public…
The two-story, 73,970 square-foot building at 7650 Mission Valley Road will be the public-facing home of San Diego’s Development Services Department. The city agreed to sublease the building in May and is spending $2.8 million on remodel work. The city of San Diego will spend $2.8 million on improvements to the newly leased and already renovated Mission Valley office building where it plans to next year move a majority of its development services department.
The work is expected to take 110 days to complete and employees should be able to move into the building by April or May, the report said. The Mission Valley location is part of the city’s two-part plan to get staff out of the operations building, which is often plagued by broken elevators, plumbing problems and other issues. In September, council members also agreed toin the office skyscraper at 550 W. C St. in downtown San Diego. DSD will consolidate into the two newly leased properties, with 500 people expected to work at the Mission Valley location and 225 people expected to move into to the downtown skyscraper.
The priciest line items, as identified in the contract, are $485,633 for electrical work, $304,793 for data cabling and $292,229 for audio-visual equipment upgrades to support public broadcasts. The contractor has also budgeted $302,143, or 14.5 percent of the total project cost, for potential cost overruns and it expects to pocket $349,202 in profit.
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