City Awards Construction Contract For Transit Operations Center
The Raleigh City Council voted unanimously today to accept a bid from Brasfield & Gorrie to construct the City’s state-of-the art transit operations center in southeast Raleigh. The general contractor’s bid totaled $20.89 million.
The transit operations center will sit on a 23-acre site on the south side of Poole Road just east of the Interstate 440 beltline. The project is being primarily funded by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, also known as the federal stimulus package. City and state funds also will be used on the project.
The transit operations center will consist of a 27,400-square-foot, two-story operations administration building, a single-story maintenance facility of 56,000 square feet, a 7,500-square-foot bus wash building, and a two-lane fueling depot building. A bus shelter on Poole Road for riders of Capital Area Transit also will be part of the project. The transit operations center will accommodate 125 buses, with the ability for future expansion to 200 buses.
Construction of the center is expected to begin late this month, with completion set for the spring of 2011. Brasfield & Gorrie is proposing to subcontract 21.1 percent of the work to Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises.
Prepared by:
John Boyette
Public Affairs Specialist
Public Affairs Department
For More Information Contact:
Gil Johnson
Construction Management
Public Works Department
434 Fayetteville Street, Suite 1730
Raleigh, NC 27601
919-996-5575
