Planning

Georgia Colonial Group Inc. is planning to build a yacht service center at the Savannah Yacht Club. The project entails the conversion of the former Intermarine shipbuilding yard into a maintenance and repair area for yachts, with a café, fitness center and dry storage area. It is being designed by Thomas & Hutton Engineering Co. and is valued at $50 million. Colonial Group Inc., 101 N. Lathrop Ave., Savannah, 31415. DR#17-00615830.

Idaho Meridian Library District is planning to renovate the Cherry Lane Branch Library in Meridian. The project is being designed by Meyer Scherer Rockcastle Design, and CM Company Inc. has been chosen as the construction manager. The project is valued at $14.3 million. Meridian Library District, 1326 W. Cherry Lane, Meridian, 83642. DR#18-00791722.

Kansas Empirical Foods is planning to construct a new ground beef facility in Garden City. Construction is anticipated to begin during the second quarter of 2020 and be completed by 2022 or 2023. The project is valued at $500 million. Empirical Foods, Attn: Rich Jochum, 891 Two Rivers Drive, Dakota Dunes, S.D. 57049. DR#20-00495850.

Nevada US Thrill Rides LLC is planning to construct the Polercoaster Thrill Ride-Observation Deck-Restaurant in Las Vegas. The structure will consist of a 650-ft-tall tower structure featuring two glass elevators to an observation deck, as well as a steel roller-coaster wrapping around the tower. The project is valued at $100 million. US Thrill Rides LLC, Attn: Michael Kitchen, Owner, 11536 Lake Butler Blvd., Windermere, Fla., 34786. DR#13-00556434.

New Hampshire Windsor Central Supervisory Union is planning to build the Woodstock Union High School/Middle School. It is being designed by Lavallee/Brensinger Architects and is valued at $50 million. Windsor Central Supervisory Union, 70 Amsden Way, Woodstock, 05091. DR#19-00697990.

Ohio The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is planning Phase 2 of its renovation. Phase 2 entails renovating Murch Auditorium, including improved acoustics, lighting and audio/visual equipment with broadcast capacity, and increasing to 495 from 445 seats; renovating the current science area; rebuilding the courtyard to include a paved area with a relief map of the Cuyahoga River watershed and a one-story-high waterfall; enclosing a 50,000-sq-ft new exhibit wing to occupy former side of the museum’s Perkins Wildlife Center; and adding a new main lobby, café and store that will wrap and enclose the museums existing brick facade. It is being designed by Westlake Reed Leskosky Architects, Inc. The project is valued at $150 million. Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval Drive, Cleveland, 44106. DR#16-00462082.

Wisconsin The Milwaukee County Dept. of Public Works plans to restore the Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Domes and transform the park into an urban botanical area with a restaurant, wedding venue, amphitheater and tennis courts. The three beehive-shaped glass domes are the world’s first conoidal domes, 140 ft dia and 85 ft high, erected between 1959 and 1967, and have been found to still be structurally sound. The project is being designed by Engberg Anderson Inc., and is valued at $66 million. Milwaukee County Dept. of Public Works, Attn: Julie Bastin, Architect/Engineer, 2711 W. Wells St., Milwaukee, 53208. DR#16-00455150.

Bids, Contracts, Proposals

Maryland The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is currently evaluating submitted bids from design-build firms seeking to design, construct, test and commission a  heavy repair and overhaul facility for Metrorail vehicles and a car track equipment maintenance facility supporting non-revenue rail vehicles. The New Carrollton West Yard facilities HRO will include operational, administrative and ancillary spaces, as well as service bays to accommodate about 40 rail cars. A rail car truck shop, rail car storage tracks to accommodate up to 24 rail cars, a traction power substation, a diesel rail vehicle fueling facility, a yard operations control tower, loading docks for heavy trucks, and employee parking garage are also included. A new rail connection from the site to the outbound Metrorail Orange Line between the Landover and New Carrollton Metrorail Stations will be required. Project value is between $400 million and $500 million. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, 8201 Ardwick-Ardmore Road, Landover, 20785. DR#19-00566495.

Bid, Proposal Dates

Texas 5/14 The San Antonio Water System is seeking bidders to carry out the Basin Planning Consultant Central Large Diameter Package 1, which involves the construction of 12,356 ft of 24- to 60-in.-dia existing sanitary sewer main to be rehabilitated via cured-in-place-pipe, bypass pumping, miscellaneous point repairs and associated manhole improvements. The project has been designed by K. Friese & Associates and is valued at $13.4 million. San Antonio Water System, Attn: Janie Powell, Contract Administrator, 2800 U.S. Highway 281 N., San Antonio, 78212. DR#20-00576635.

Illinois 6/2 The U.S. Dept. of Energy is currently seeking bidders to construct a Linear Accelerator complex at Fermilab in Batavia. The project is valued at between $60 million and $80 million. U.S. Dept. of Energy, Attn: Frank Minton, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, 60510. DR#18-00784238.

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