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Drivers, and pedestrians, get ready: Lansdale Borough Council has, at long last, awarded a contract for the town’s East Main Street sidewalk and drainage upgrade project.
“I’m really excited that we are finally ready to award a bid, and get this work started,” said council President Mary Fuller last month.
The East Main Streetscape project has been on the drawing board since 2014, when the town secured roughly $3 million in grant funding for the project on the heels of two similar projects that upgraded utilities and replaced old sidewalks with new brick and pavers on downtown Main, Broad and Madison Streets in 2011-12, then along Wood and Vine Streets in 2013-14.
Over the next several years, plans were developed and refined to add similar sidewalks and utility upgrades running east along Main from Broad Street to just past the North Penn Commons complex near Highland Road. Those plans were presented to council and the public in October 2020, then updated in summer 2021 and again that December. In 2022 the engineer reported that final designs have been reviewed and vetted by SEPTA and PennDOT for the two phases of the project. In early 2023 the engineers reported on delays pushing the project into 2024, this January the project was finally ready to go to bid, and in early April council heard that bids had come back below budget.
On April 17, the contract award: to Scott Building Corporation, vetted and found to be the lowest responsible bidder by the town’s traffic engineer, for a price of just under $3.2 million. Councilman BJ Breish read that motion, council approved it unanimously, then Breish made a second motion for the same project, to awarding engineering firm Remington, Vernick and Beach a $152,000 contract for part-time inspection services for the project.
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