Favorable bids mean cheaper summer street project in St. Paul Park

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Summer street and sewer improvements in St. Paul Park will cost the city less than expected, officials say.

Midwest Asphalt submitted the low bid of $ 960,000 to complete a project that will repave streets and replace and repair sections of storm and sanitary sewers in a neighborhood north and west of Heritage Park. The project area sits adjacent to a neighborhood where roadwork was completed during the summer of 2011. City Council members awarded the project at a meeting last week.

The sub-$1 million price tag is roughly $50,000 less than the city’s most recent cost estimate of $1.1 million. It is nearly $100,000 less than the original estimated cost that included the paving of three alleyways in the project area; council members struck that portion of the project after a lack of interest from impacted residents.

The project will impact roughly 100 properties. An assessment hearing is scheduled for May 7.

Savings from the favorable bids “will be passed through the assessments,” said City Engineer Morgan Dawley, meaning lower assessments for property owners.

Streets included in the 2012 project include:

- Summit Avenue, from Pullman Avenue to 14th Avenue;

- Portland/Holley Avenue, from Pullman Avenue to 13th Avenue;

- Ashland Avenue, from Pullman Avenue to 13th Avenue;

- Laurel Avenue, from Pullman to 13th Avenue; and

- 13th Avenue, from Summit Avenue to Lincoln Avenue.

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