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1 | Page City of Pleasanton Amador Theater programmatic Rehab vs. Build cost comparison 2018-024-02 City of Pleasanton Amador Theater Programmatic Rehabilitation vs. Build Cost Analysis Executive summary The City of Pleasanton is exploring the feasibility of returning ownership of the Amador Theater to the Amador Valley School District. The primary intent is to determine the general cost of rehabilitation in comparison to a new facility with a similar program. Both scenarios would include solutions for the need for removing existing accessibility barriers and improvements to egress, such as a larger lobby that better matches the seating capacity. Rehabilitation of the existing facility $17,403,319 New Construction with similar program: $21,067,500 Brief Interactive Resources was tasked with providing a facility assessment and estimates to inform this goal. The planned task was to provide a facility condition assessment which would be based on existing drawings (if available) from the Division of State Architect (DSA) records. A site visit was made on 11/16/21 with the interactive resources team: architect, structural engineer, and mechanical engineer. Interviews were conducted with city staff and the facility was inspected. The second part was to involve the DSA in providing records for the building if possible and establish the type of regulatory compliance for the facility. It was hoped that improvements in record keeping and digital records would have possibly changed the likelihood of successfully showing hidden existing conditions and being able to establish an original DSA project number. Our research seems to confirm that the DSA records for the theater were lost in a warehouse fire pre- 1988, and many further attempts by the DSA to locate other records for the building have been unsuccessful. We have exhausted all existing leads including neighboring building submissions and former architects involved in improvements. We are currently required to proceed with the building considered as “new” under CAC 4-307 and DSA IR EB-4 only refers to certified buildings. This also reinforces the current trend by the California DSA. The extensive communications with the DSA and resulting determination that the building be treated as a new building application changed the nature of the investigation and structural compliance significantly. In response to this, the team was asked by the city to provide assessment information sufficient for a general square footage estimate for both scenarios. ATTACHMENT 3 Page 57 of 454