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Article: SOUND TRANSIT SAVES AND PAYS EXTRA $20 MILLION $72 MILLION PRICE MORE THAN AGENCY EXPECTED, BUT LESS THAN FIRST BID.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 29, 2008
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Byline: P-I STAFF
Mowat Construction will build a station at Sea-Tac Airport for Sound Transit's light rail system, but for $72 million, $20 million more than the agency initially thought.
Sound Transit board members Thursday approved a contract for Mowat to build the station at a cost that's $23.3 million cheaper than Mowat originally bid.
Despite a year's delay in the contract process, Sound Transit will complete the station in time to open light rail service between downtown Seattle and the airport, said Ron Lewis, the agency's deputy light-rail director.
The station is part of a $2.6 billion, 15.7-mile light rail system linking ...