Local News in Brief : Santa Ana : Irvine Firm to Design New Corporate Yard
An Irvine-based architectural and engineering firm won a $440,000 contract to design the Santa Ana’s new corporate yard.
Grillias, Pirc, Rosier & Alves, which has designed maintenance centers for the cities of Orange and Placentia, won the contract over four other firms. The new yard is expected to cost the city about $10.2 million by the time it is completed in 1990.
The City Council voted Tuesday, 4-2, to award the contract to the company, with Councilmen John Acosta and Miguel Pulido dissenting. Acosta objected to the city’s request for proposals, which was sent to qualified firms, and criticized staff members for what he said was the document’s “unprofessional” appearance.
City engineer Bob Eichblatt, in an exchange with Acosta at the meeting, said staff members had spent a year putting the request for proposals together. “We did a very thorough job, and I’ll stand behind it,” he said.
Al Alves, one of the Irvine firm’s partners, also defended the staff’s work, saying the document was one of the most thorough he had ever seen.
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