The University of Massachusetts (UMass) Building Authority has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to seek information from potential developers interested in providing Public Private Partnership (P3) services.

The Authority seeks developers for a mixed use development opportunity on a 19.94 acre site on the Bayside Property in the Columbia Point section of Boston, Massachusetts adjacent to the UMass Boston campus.

Through the Authority, UMass wishes to engage a Developer to conceptualize a vision to transform the Bayside Property into a modern-day Harvard Square, New Balance/Boston Landing, Kenmore Square, MIT Volpe Center etc., projects; a mixed-use destination where a diverse community lives, learns and thrives, integrated with and complementary to the UMass Boston campus that optimizes its value and creates an oceanfront Boston neighborhood with academic, research, retail, residential, dining, entertainment and cultural uses, serving as a new gateway to UMass Boston and distinguish the University in the higher education marketplace as a unique, attractive urban university, all accomplished by leveraging public private partnerships that will facilitate a more rapid development of the Bayside.

Submissions must be received no later than Friday, October 6, 2017. Further information is available here.

The University of Massachusetts Building Authority is an independent body politic and corporate, and a public instrumentality of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Authority was created for the general purpose of aiding and contributing to the performance of the educational and other purposes of the University by providing residence halls, dining commons, academic facilities, and other buildings and structures for the use of the University, its students, staff and their dependents, and certain approved organizations. T he Authority serves the University of Massachusetts, which is comprised of five campuses at Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and the Medical School in Worcester.