RFP - Sale of 299-301 Bacon St, Natick, MA

Aug 1

Written By Gr

The Board of Trustees of the Town of Natick Affordable Housing Trust Fund, Natick Town Hall, 13 East Central Street, Natick, MA 01760 (“the Trust”) invites the submission of sealed proposals for the sale of a parcel held by the Trust, located at 299-301 Bacon Street, Natick, Massachusetts.

The Request for Proposals (“RFP”) may be obtained from the Procurement Office by emailing bleblanc@natickma.org between 8:30 A.M. and 4:30 P.M. local time, Monday through Thursday, and between 8:30 A.M. and 12:00 P.M. (noon) local time, Friday, beginning on August 20, 2025. Sealed Proposals, contained in sealed envelopes marked “RFP: Sale of the Bacon Street Property” will be received until 9:00 A.M. local time, October 1, 2025, by the Natick Procurement Office, 75 West Street, Natick, MA. Proposal opening will be viewable online, via the ZOOM platform, at the following address: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85291473529 Meeting ID: 852 9147 3529.

All Proposals shall comply with the RFP issued by the Trust including, without limitation, the Proposal Submission Requirements. The Trust reserves the right to waive any informality in or to reject any, any part of, or all Proposals in the best interest of the Trust. Any Proposal submitted will be binding for one hundred twenty (120) calendar days subsequent to the deadline date for receipt of sealed Proposals. For further property information and the terms of the transaction, please refer to the RFP, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Ganesh Ramachandran is an urban designer and a photographer who has led design efforts for a wide range of award winning projects in campus planning, citywide comprehensive plans, downtown revitalization, multi-family housing, transit oriented development and healthcare facilities planning. His work spans a spectrum of services, from conceptual planning, programmatic site capacity studies, project management and public outreach. Since 1998, Ganesh has been collaborating on high profile planning and design efforts in India, United States, China, and Pakistan by developing context-sensitive design ideas and by cross fertilizing planning strategies gleaned by working with the local communities, city governments, private developers and fellow professionals in more than 30 cities across the world including Baltimore, Bangalore, Boston, Cambridge MA, Calcutta, Chennai, Karachi, New Orleans, Palo Alto, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Shanghai and Washington DC. A member of 40-under-40 Next American Vanguard class in 2012, Ganesh has been a guest speaker and studio critic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Architectural College and University of California, Berkeley. He is also a professional architectural photographer and a documentarian of urban conditions. His work can be seen at www.gramachandran.com and at www.urbanslate.com Ganesh received a masters degree in urban design from the University of California, Berkeley, masters degree in architecture from the Ohio State University, Columbus OH and a baccalaureate degree in architecture from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, India