Inglewood approves $261 million P3 for Transit Connector Phase 1 near SoFi and Intuit

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By The Southbound 105 INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Inglewood City Council has approved a $261 million public-private partnership for Phase 1 of the Inglewood Transit Connector, a project aimed at moving large crowds to and from SoFi Stadium and the Intuit Dome without gridlocking local streets, Engineering News-Record reported. The deal is designed to ease congestion around the city’s major sports and entertainment venues, especially during the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to ENR. Groundbreaking is scheduled for November. Elevate Inglewood Development Company was selected as the best-value proposer through a competitive procurement. The consortium is led by Plenary Americas as the developer, with Swinerton as design-build contractor and Walter P. Moore as architect of record, ENR reported. “This agreement gives Inglewood one contract, one team, one fixed price and one deadline,” Councilmember Eloy Morales Jr. said in a news release quoted by ENR. “The developer carries the cost and schedule risk, which protects Inglewood taxpayers.” Inglewood, a city of about 100,000 residents, hosts more than 60 major annual events across SoFi Stadium, the Intuit Dome and the Kia Forum, drawing tens of thousands of visitors into the corridor and causing heavy congestion, according to ENR. Phase 1 will install dedicated event-day shuttle and bus lanes from the north and south of the city to the sports and entertainment district, using synchronized signals to give buses priority. The project will also integrate intelligent transportation systems to optimize traffic management, ENR reported. Major streets will receive hardscaping and landscaping, irrigation, traffic controls, wayfinding, street furniture and pedestrian-scale lighting. Three mobility hubs will deliver more than 1,000 new parking stalls, and a pedestrian bridge over Florence Avenue will connect downtown to the Metro K Lines Downtown Inglewood Station. The plan preserves right-of-way for a future high-capacity automated people mover, according to ENR. The largest hub, at Market and Florence, is planned to include transit-oriented retail, parking, a bus plaza and a kiss-and-ride lot, coordinated with the city’s Destination Market Street program funding facade and tenant improvements along the same corridor, ENR reported. Designers isolated the hub’s foundations and utilities to avoid conflicts with columns for a future automated people mover. Walter P. Moore selected steel for the Florence Avenue pedestrian bridge to allow off-site prefabrication and quick erection. Eric Pagan, a principal with Walter P. Moore, told ENR that steel minimizes traffic disruption because the superstructure can be erected in a single day with limited temporary lane closures, unlike cast-in-place concrete. Jeff Goodermote, vice president and division manager of national parking structures with Swinerton, said the team incorporated automated people mover preservation requirements into the design from the outset so a future system could be integrated with minimal impacts to facilities delivered now, according to ENR. The project is structured as a design-build-finance-operate-maintain agreement placing design, construction, financing, operations and maintenance under a single fixed-price contract with Elevate Inglewood Development Company against a fixed completion date. The consortium will run and maintain the Market and Florence Hub and the pedestrian bridge for 20 years; the city will take over the streetscape improvements and the other two hubs immediately, ENR reported. Rather than relying on parking fees or transit fares to recover capital costs, the project uses an availability-payment model. Elevate Inglewood Development Company will receive regular, fixed annual payments from the city, drawn from secured state and regional transit grants, insulating local municipal accounts from the ongoing expense, according to ENR. Payments depend on meeting technical performance baselines; the city can deduct from the annual availability payout if the private partner fails to keep facilities clean, safe and in good repair over the 20-year concession term. The city said the ITC program will generate approximately $210 million in tax revenue and $1.5 billion in total economic output over the life of construction and operations, ENR reported. The deal includes a Project Labor Agreement and a Community Workforce Agreement requiring 35% of all construction and long-term maintenance jobs to go to local workers, with a 20% goal for hiring local small businesses. All design and construction grants for this initial phase are fully secured through a partnership with the state and Metro, shielding Inglewood’s General Fund from project costs, according to ENR. --- Sources: - https://www.enr.com/articles/63572-inglewood-approves-261m-public-private-partnership-to-ease-congestion-around-venues

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