UC Davis Student Housing Request For Proposals

Welcome to UC Davis!

Founded in 1908 as the University Farm, UC Davis became a general campus in 1959. UC Davis is located on the southern edge of Davis, California, 15 miles southwest of Sacramento and 90 miles northeast of San Francisco. The core campus lies north of Interstate 80 and east of Highway 113. At approximately 5,300 acres, UC Davis is the largest of the University of California campuses.

Current enrollment planning for the UC Davis campus forecasts a potential student population of about 39,000 by 2027-2028.

The residential rental market in the City of Davis is severely constrained with less than a 0.2% vacancy rate in the 2016-2017 academic year. In 2015-2016 more than 9,400 students, approximately 29% of Davis enrollment lived on campus; about 5,250 traditional first-year students (freshman) lived in residence halls while another 4,150 upper-division undergraduate and graduate students lived in apartments. In addition, UC Davis master leases additional beds in the City of Davis to accommodate transfer students.

Introduction

The Regents of the University of California (“University”) on behalf of its Davis campus (“UC Davis”) is seeking a Developer or Developers (“Developer”) to design, construct, own and manage two rental apartment communities to serve UC Davis students with families and graduate students, and transfer students respectively. The Developer will be selected from those Developers previously selected through the University’s Request for Information for the Development of Student Housing, dated November 15, 2016 and listed below:

American Campus Communities
EdR
Capstone Development Partners LLC
Balfour Beatty
Hunt Companies
Servitas
University Student Living
CA Student Living

The two projects envisioned by UC Davis will be the Orchard Park project and the West Village Transfer Student Housing project ("Project" or collectively, “Projects”). The Orchard Park Project will provide 200 affordable two-bedroom apartment units to serve UC Davis student families, married students or students with registered domestic partners, and a target of an additional 700 beds for single graduate students. The West Village Transfer Student Housing Project will provide a target of 1,875 beds of apartment-style student housing, a majority of which (approximately 1,000 beds) will be master leased back to the UC Davis campus to serve the large transfer student population.

Respondents to the Stage 1 Request for Proposals (“RFP”) may respond for either one or both Projects. Through this RFP, the University intends to select a Developer or Developers with whom it may negotiate and enter into a ground lease or ground leases and/or other agreements for one or both Projects. The selection process will be conducted in two stages. A short list of Developers will be selected from those Developers responding to this Stage 1 solicitation and will be invited to respond to the Stage 2 RFP. Stage 2 of the process will include detailed pro formas, a design charrette and an additional Developer interview.