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Youngstown hired a firm to pave a section of South Avenue for about $830,000
YOUNGSTOWN
A Hillsville, Pa., company was hired to pave South Avenue – one of the city’s main gateways – from Midlothian Boulevard to Williamson Avenue.
The city’s board of control signed a $829,341 contract Tuesday with Butch & McCree Paving Inc.
Of the cost, 80 percent is being paid by a federal grant and the rest is coming from state funds, said Charles Shasho, deputy director of the city’s public-works department. No city money is being spent.
“The road is in bad shape,” he said. “It’s one of our major gateways with high traffic numbers.”
The work was to be done in 2018, but the city convinced government officials to move the project up two years because of the road’s condition, Shasho said.
Butch & McCree had the lowest proposal among seven companies seeking the job.
The project’s cost estimate was $1.2 million. All seven proposals were under that amount.
“Generally speaking, paving numbers this year are pretty favorable,” Shasho said.
Among the reasons, he said, is the declining cost of oil used to make asphalt.
The project will start in a few weeks and take 90 days to complete.
South Avenue between Williamson and Indianola avenues was last paved in 2001, Shasho said.
He didn’t know the last time the other portion of South was paved, but it was before 2001.
Dominion East Ohio is finishing a project to replace a gas line on South Avenue along much of the part of the road that is to be paved, Shasho said.
The state replaced nine traffic lights and removed four others a few months ago on South Avenue and Midlothian Boulevard.
More than $13 million worth of improvements to some of the city’s busiest roads are being done this year.