City Seeks Bids For McEuen Design

Item: McEuen Field bids sought: Coeur d’Alene expects to spend up to $125,000 for design of waterfront play field /Coeur d’Alene Press

More Info: The new company will be comprised of landscape architects and engineers to design a plan using information on the park from previous meetings and studies and to ensure the blueprint can be implemented from an engineering standpoint. The design could include roughly seven lots of properties Lake City Development Corp. owns south of City Hall and will incorporate reconstruction plans for Front Avenue. Councilman Ron Edinger was the lone vote against sending the project out to bid, suggesting instead to draw the park’s new design from previous community ideas and use city engineers for the engineering side.

Question: What do you think of Councilman Ron Edinger’s idea that the city could save money by piecing together designs from past studies that the city has spent about $228,000 on?