Vallecitos Water District Corporate Yard

Vallecitos Water District Facility

Vallecitos Water District

From Grand Orchid Jury:

 "Fabulous. A smart, tasteful building for a public agency. It restores (our) confidence in the expenditure of funds."

 "Beauty among the beasts of a business park...understated elegance- wonderful use of stone/ flowing river rock and drought tolerant landscaping. Simple thoughtful facade....the architecture is a novel alternative to the overused California mission."

"A welcome diversion from the old California Rawhide Ranch/ Bonanza theme that abounds San Marcos."

"A class standout in contrast to the industrialist style tilt-ups of its neighbors. This is a friendly and inviting building that is residential in nature with a front door highly visible from surrounding streets."

"This beautiful building was built on a large industrial-zoned undeveloped 68-acre parcel, at the toe of a coastal sage-covered knoll. At one time the land was farmed and was also the site of a fairgrounds, and the Prairie-style architecture fits the history of the site and the community."
Location

San Marcos, California

Date

1990

Type  

Offices

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Project consisted of providing the Vallecitos Water District services to program and design a new headquarters facility on a 75 acre site. The result of this programming is a complex on approximately 14 acres of the existing 75 with four buildings.


The buildings are as follows:

- Administration Building 40,000sf

- Operations Office Building 10,000sf

- Shops Building 13,000sf

- Warehouse 13,000sf


Other structures on the site include a fueling island and a vehicle wash building.


The project cost estimate was $8,500,000 and the bid price was $8,725,000. The five lowest bidders were within 5% of each other. Change orders totaled 5.4% ; of that approximately 2.4% were Owner additions/ changes, and 3% were field and A/E change orders.

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