Missouri Bottom Road Project Costs Hazelwood More Money, Still Under Orig. Estimate
City manager Edwin Carlstrom asked Hazelwood City Council to hear first reading of two bills to pay a construction and engineering firm additional funds on the road improvement project.
What could have been a $1.9 million project for the City of Hazelwood to reconstruct Missouri Bottom Road resulted in the city saving close to $700,000 after completing the project for $1.2 when it reopened on October 22 of last year. Still, the project that took quite a while to complete because of the importance of repairing the roads infrastructure, will not cost the city a little bit more as it will have to pay a few additional funds to the project's construction and engineering firms. "There was a lot of complexity with this project," Hazelwood City Manager Edwin Carlstrom said "When we got through looking at all of the additions, subtractions and changes to the original contract, the change order (for construction work) has come to …
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