Tepper's Empty Box
Residents who have done battle with contractors will be interested in the city’s tale of engaging a firm to fit out the city-owned basement portion of the Tepper’s building in August. The company spent $399,842.07 of a $459,000 bid award within a month.
Tasks completed included painting at $10,439.70, electrical work at $58,650, plumbing at $74,800, carpentry at $59,800 and floor masonry preparation at $23,000.
The full list is available at the City Clerk’s office.
Major undone tasks include HVAC work at $84,084.99, with 59 percent completed.
This project was bid out because the city was about to lose a major grant dating back to when the city proposed to put a senior center in the Tepper’s basement many years ago. The grant was apparently specific to the building and not to the senior center issue, which has since been solved by the city’s deal to permit 63 condos downtown with a senior center on the ground floor.
The contractor was George Lattimore’s firm, Solid Rock Construction.
The city still has no intended use for the space.
Possibilities including new City Council chambers and downtown surveillance camera headquarters have never won approval. City Administrator Marc Dashield called the space a “pretty much a vanilla box” pending an assigned use.
--Bernice Paglia
Tasks completed included painting at $10,439.70, electrical work at $58,650, plumbing at $74,800, carpentry at $59,800 and floor masonry preparation at $23,000.
The full list is available at the City Clerk’s office.
Major undone tasks include HVAC work at $84,084.99, with 59 percent completed.
This project was bid out because the city was about to lose a major grant dating back to when the city proposed to put a senior center in the Tepper’s basement many years ago. The grant was apparently specific to the building and not to the senior center issue, which has since been solved by the city’s deal to permit 63 condos downtown with a senior center on the ground floor.
The contractor was George Lattimore’s firm, Solid Rock Construction.
The city still has no intended use for the space.
Possibilities including new City Council chambers and downtown surveillance camera headquarters have never won approval. City Administrator Marc Dashield called the space a “pretty much a vanilla box” pending an assigned use.
--Bernice Paglia
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