Parks and Recreation Director Mike Keene said Monday that Dig Studios has submitted the final design for the planned park at the corner of McCulloch Boulevard and Querio Drive in the Main Street neighborhood of downtown Havasu. City officials received the plans last week and are reviewing them before finalizing.

“We’re going to call this the 99% done document because there is still review work to be done by both the engineering and development services departments,” Keene said at a Parks and Recreation Commission meeting on Monday.

Keene said Havas will be ready to put the project up for tender once construction documents are reviewed and finalized by city officials. The city council has requested that the full scope of the design be put up for tender, but has suggested that the city council may decide to scale back the scope of the project depending on cost.

A full build is expected to cost about $2.7 million, according to Dig Studio’s cost estimate this spring. The city still has $815,000 of his prize money from the 2017 America’s Best Community Contest allocated for this project. Havasu also hopes to receive a $1 million grant from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to help cover the cost of this project. Arizona State Parks & Trails has granted approval for the grant, but the city is still awaiting a response from the National Park Service.

Keene said the project will be put up for tender for about six to seven weeks, after which staff will evaluate the bids received and make recommendations that will be submitted to Congress for approval.

“We won’t be able to start construction until the actual event season begins, by the time we finish reviewing and put it out for tender, so I don’t think that’s the right time to do this project,” Keene said. . He said. “So my recommendation is to start construction right after the desert storm next spring.”