{"id":180,"date":"2012-11-29T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=180"},"modified":"2013-03-12T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:56:24","slug":"mowat-construction-submits-apparent-low-bid-for-mlk-jr-blvd-underpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/mowat-construction-submits-apparent-low-bid-for-mlk-jr-blvd-underpass\/","title":{"rendered":"Mowat Construction Submits Apparent Low Bid for MLK, Jr. Blvd. Underpass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> City Engineer Doug Mayo \u2013 576-6111<br \/>\nCommunity Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 \u2013 <a href=\"mailto:randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov\">randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mowat Construction Company, which has been building public works projects throughout the western United States since its founding in the mid 1960s, has submitted the apparent low bid to serve as the prime contractor for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard underpass project in Downtown Yakima.<\/p>\n<p>Mowat\u2019s bid of just over $10.6 million ($10,634,867.95) is almost $2 million below engineer\u2019s estimates for the underpass, which will be a virtual twin of the Lincoln Avenue underpass that opened in May of this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the six bids that the City received for the MLK, Jr. Boulevard underpass were below the estimated cost of about $12.7 million,\u201d said City Engineer Doug Mayo.\u00a0 \u201cTiming is probably the biggest factor in the bids coming in below the estimate,\u201d said Mayo.\u00a0 \u201cContractors are looking for work right now, and that benefited us on this project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The City is currently reviewing the details of Mowat\u2019s bid, checking it for accuracy and completeness.\u00a0 If no issues arise during the bid verification process, which will likely be completed within the next week or so, Mowat would formally be awarded the underpass contract.<\/p>\n<p>Mowat started in 1964 as David A. Mowat Company, named for its founder.\u00a0 In its early days, the company worked on a variety of projects such as high schools and elementary schools, the Seattle National Guard Armory, and the Battelle Marine Research Laboratory in Sequim.\u00a0 In 1994, its name was changed to Mowat Construction Company.\u00a0 For several years, Mowat\u2019s focus has been on heavy roadway and bridge construction projects.<\/p>\n<p>Work on the MLK, Jr. Blvd. underpass is expected to get underway in mid or late January.\u00a0 According to Mayo, the exact start date of the project will be determined once the contract is formally awarded.\u00a0 When the project begins will depend on scheduling availability of the prime contractor.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the first of the year, revisions will begin being implemented that will move traffic now on MLK, Jr. Blvd. to Yakima Avenue.\u00a0 Throughout the underpass project, which will likely take about a year and a half to complete, MLK, Jr. Blvd. between 1<sup>st<\/sup> Street and 1<sup>st<\/sup> Avenue will be closed to all traffic.\u00a0 North Front Street will also be closed between A Street and the Lincoln Avenue underpass bridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/MLK-Jr.-Blvd.-Underpass-Bid.pdf\">MLK, Jr. Blvd. Underpass Bid (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: City Engineer Doug Mayo \u2013 576-6111 Community Relations Manager Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 \u2013 randy.beehler@yakimawa.gov Mowat Construction Company, which has been building public works projects throughout the western United States since its founding in the mid 1960s, has submitted the apparent low bid to serve as the prime contractor for the Martin Luther King,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}