Wednesday, April 18, 2007
YOUNGSTOWN — A downtown property redevelopment agency expects to award a contract to design and construct the Taft Technology Center by the end of the month.
The Youngstown Central Area Community Improvement Corp. opened six proposals today for the project.
CIC staff will examine each of the proposals to make sure they comply with the project’s specifications, said Reid Dulberger, the Regional Chamber’s executive vice president. The chamber oversees the CIC.
The CIC received six proposals in February to design and build the proposed three-story, 30,000-square-foot high-technology center. But the board threw out all six because of problems with the proposals or because they were too expensive.
The apparent low base proposal opened today was $3,738,733 from Mike Coates Construction Co. of Niles and Ricciuti Balog & Partners of Youngstown.