This level of effort project is intended to provide a structured process to ensure that all Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) retail store locations are modernized and updated to provide customers with a friendlier shopping experience in well-merchandised stores that offer choice, convenience, and knowledgeable staff. Once a retail store has been refreshed, it could offer a more aesthetically pleasing and safer shopping experience with new flooring and lighting, wider shopping aisles, tasting rooms, pairing dinners, and other special events. Flooring, painting, shelving, updating restrooms, and work identified for major building systems (including roofing, mechanical/heating, ventilation, and air conditioning [HVAC], and windows) will be included to "freshen up" the retail stores and ensure working and efficient operating systems.

Cost decrease reflects an adjustment to the project scope focused on a more limited refurbishment model.

This project is a vital piece of ABS's Five-Year Financial Plan to increase its transfer to the County. Further, this project will give ABS the ability to leverage external funding that will eliminate the need to use debt financing or tax dollars. Many of the retail stores have not been updated for 20 years. Ensuring that ABS is able to execute its multi-year plan to renovate/upgrade its 20 outdated retail stores is key to providing better service to its clientele. This project will also allow ABS to leverage contributions from landlords who will match, and in some cases, exceed the investment ABS will make in each store remodel - an investment the landlords will not commit to without the County funding appropriation.