Wick Avenue improvement contract awarded to Marucci & Gaffney Excavating

YOUNGSTOWN

The city’s board of control approved awarding the Wick Avenue improvement project to Marucci & Gaffney Excavating of Youngstown.

The board, which includes Mayor John A. McNally; Martin Hume, law director; and David Bozanich, finance director; awarded the $4.1 million project to the Youngstown company Thursday.

That company had the lowest bid of the six submitted. The award is contingent on city’s law department review of documents submitted by the company.

Marucci & Gaffney’s bid was lower than the $5.3 million project estimate.

The project runs along Wick Avenue between McGuffey Road and Wood Street.

The project will move above-ground utility poles underground between Rayen Avenue and the Madison Avenue Expressway access roads.

The work also includes replacing two waterlines with one, replacing a sewer line, installing new traffic lights, reducing the four-lane road to three with the middle being a turning lane, paving and new signs.

Read more about the project in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.