The City of Edmond is requesting qualifications from a design team to submit their qualifications to perform architectural, engineering, planning and design services related to the construction of the Centralized Administration Building and Parking Garage in Downtown Edmond. Edmond is experiencing rapid changes and significant new private capital investment in the core of the city. This project is the cornerstone to a redevelopment effort along the Littler Avenue Corridor from 2nd Street north to Hurd. By consolidating city offices into one building, property vacated by the City would then be part of a separate solicited private sector redevelopment proposal process for mixed use development along this corridor. Before any of that can occur, the Centralized Administration Building and Parking Garage needs to be constructed as the first step in the development process.

Edmond residents may be able to save additional money on their flood insurance after the City of Edmond recently improved its rating through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) program for floodplain management.

Edmond’s rating improved one level in FEMA’s Community Rating System (CRS), which is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages community floodplain management practices that exceed the minimum requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

The result of a lengthy re-verification process – and the diligent efforts of the Edmond Drainage Utility – the City rating improved to a 6, which enables residents to receive a 20 percent discount for NFIP-backed homeowner’s flood insurance if a structure is within a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA), and a 10 percent discount for structures located outside the SFHA – a 5 percent increase on both discounts.