Construction company chosen for new animal shelter
Post-Tribune
May 17, 2016 - 4:33PM
The new Porter County Animal Shelter inched closer to reality Tuesday as the Board of Commissioners learned which of three design/build teams is closest to hitting the parameters outlined for the project.
In a dovetailing of scores for facility designs and proposed cost, Larson-Danielson Construction Co. of LaPorte offered the best option, said Stephen Kromkowski with DLZ.
Larson-Danielson scored in the middle in the design rankings done by a technical review committee and offered a proposed cost of about $2.7 million, the lowest of the three teams competing for the project. The other two teams are Core, Epoc, Millies and Abonmarche, and Gairup/M2Ke design.
"Everything did meet the criteria that was established," Kromkowski said.
The next step, he said, will be for Larson-Danielson to sit down with a shelter advisory committee and fine-tune the overall design.
"They're not changing the scope and they're not changing the design," Kromkowski said, adding it's more of an "overall refinement" of the plans.
By the commissioners' next meeting on June 14, Commissioner Jeff Good, R-Center, said officials would have "a really good idea" of the cost of a new shelter.
County officials have long said that the current shelter, at 2056 Heavilin Road off of Indiana 2, was outdated and too small to handle the number of animals that come through its doors.
Demolition is complete on the old house on the county-owned land for the new shelter, on a five-acre parcel between the sheriff's department and the Expo Center on Indiana 49, said highway superintendent David James, as well as demolition of the outbuildings on the property.
Additionally, the commissioners and Surveyor Kevin Breitzke, serving as the county's storm water board, unanimously passed a resolution against Great Lakes Basin Transportation's plans for a 278-mile freight train line, which would start in Wisconsin and end in LaPorte County.
The proposed line, an $8 billion, privately funded project, would run through southern and eastern Porter County.
Several other boards in Lake and Porter counties have come out against the plan.
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