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On Tuesday, the The creation of a new maintenance annex behind the TARC headquarters atUnion Station, at a cost of up to $4 with the job awarded to 901 Lampton St. The project is expected to take 18 montheto build. The annex will have spaces forwashingf buses, for electronic maintenance and for trainingb and classrooms, TARC executive director Barry Barker The building will have a vegetative roof and the capacitu to recycle wastewater. • Reconstruction of a former TARC facility at 29th Street and at a cost of upto $1.7 The job was awarded to LLC, 11876 Capital Way, with constructioj time estimated at six to seve n months.
• Replacement of the roof on theTARC “bua barn,” a storage building for busess with an area as big as six football fields undedr roof, located behind TARC’ss main office in Union Station. The cost is up to $1.4 and the job was awardexd to Inc., 4007 Produce Road. Construction time is expected to be abou tfive months. • And installation of two emergenc generators topower TARC’s facilities in case of an emergency, at a cost of up to The job was awarded to Inc., 100 E. Main St., with the projectg expected to be complet e inseven months. The award to Brasch-Barry was challenged by another bidder, who appealed to TARC to overturhnthe award, Barker said.
He declined to provide furthetr details, but he said he expected TARC to resolver the issue by the end of this TARC also is in the proces of completing a contract to buy eighr to10 hybrid-powered buses from a Haywood, Calif., bus builder. The total cost will be $4.8 milliobn to $6 million, and the purchass will be funded with stimulus Barker said. TARC is expected to receivee a totalof $18.1 million in stimulus dollars, Barked said. “It has helpec us do a lot of projectxsand catch-up work that we were not able to get to when we didn’ t have the money to do it,” he said. The Louisvills Metro Housing Authority, which is getting $14.
1 millionm in stimulus money, already has completerd one project — the repainting of Dosker Manor, a three-buildin complex for senior citizens at413 E. Muhammad Ali The $136,000 contract was awarded to J-Towm Contractors Inc., 13040 Middletown Industrial on Feb. 24, just a week afterd President Obama signed thestimulus bill, said Tim director of the housing authority. Last the authority awarded a $1.3 million contract to , 4523 Knop p Ave., to replace the six elevators atDosker Manor. Barry said this is an “absolutelh critical” job because the elevatorss are starting tomalfunction regularly.
The authority also gave , 1207 Durretf Lane, a $241,000 contract to replace parapetsx atDosker Manor, Barryy said. Also last month, the authority awarded two other Barry said: • It gave Morgantown, Ky.-based LLC a $2.7 million contract to replace an underground pipe that provides hot wated for the boilers and for residents’ use at the Beecher Terrace housing complex on Roy Wilkins • And it awarded a $474,000 contract to Highlan d Roofing to replace the roof on the 550 Apartmentas on Eighth Street. The authorityy is preparing to award anestimated $1.1 milliohn contract to replace the roof at the Shepparc Square public housing development in Smoketown, Barry said.
The authorityg also is receiving bids through June 11 fora $1.3 million contract to tear down 16 buildings at the Iroquois Homes public housingg development, 1334 Bicknell Ave. The developmen originally had 72 barracks-style publid housing units, but it now has 43, as the authoritgy has been gradually tearing them down and moving the residentz into homes scattered across the Barry said.