Finalists present their concepts for downtown waterfront design competition

By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff

After nearly six months, the city of Sandpoint is getting close to identifying a finalist in its downtown waterfront design competition, which kicked off in late-February when the City Council voted to invite eligible teams to submit proposals for redevelopment of Sand Creek and City Beach, as well as inform the Comprehensive Plan update and future zoning and code changes.

Since then, the competition has progressed through its first stage and most of the second phase, arriving at three finalist teams. From those, one will be selected by a jury after public presentations at City Hall on Tuesday, Aug. 15. The winning team will then present to the City Council at a date to be determined, after which the design will be further vetted and modified — potentially even incorporating elements from other teams’ concepts.

The three finalists include:

•Team A: Skylab, PLACE, KPFF, PAE & LUMA, Brightworks and ECONorthwest;

•Team B: First Forty Feet, Greenworks, Fehr & Peers, Century West Engineering and North Root Architecture;

•Team C: GGLO + Bernardo Wills, Welch Comer, Greg Moller, Erin Blue and Sarah Thompson Moore.

Team A will present its proposal Aug. 15 at 11 a.m., followed by Team B at 1:30 p.m. and Team C at 3:30 p.m. All the presentations will take place in person at City Hall (1123 Lake St.) and be available virtually by following the links at sandpointidaho. gov under “News & Announcements.”

In the meantime, all three proposals — including visuals and supporting documents