05-03-2017, 11:59 AM
If you tell a bidder to come in with what they can give you if you let them build 30 storeys, and then say that they can only build 4, you get an incredibly different set of buildings, because a developer doing the whole site will absolutely give you more features and bang for your buck for every floor of building you give them. But if you don't tell them how much of the profit-generation they can have (aka how many floors can they build), they will tell you what you get for the worst case (6 floors), and you will only get builders who would do the 6 floor one like crap, instead of better builders who could do much better hubs, but would need to know they can sell 30 floors of condos to subsidize a better transit hub. We do not want them going in having to think that they can only build 6 floors potentially, show us what that gets, and then allow 30 storeys, but at that point wind up with none of the hub-design benefits of those 30 floors, because they gave you only what 6 storeys would fund.