Article: United states : Industrial park work to cost less.

Byline: shiv03

A bad economy and construction contractors hunger for work will enable a project at a Mount Airy industrial park to be completed much cheaper than planned, officials said.

Work to extend water and sewer lines to Piedmont Triad West Corporate Park originally anticipated to cost as much as $900,000 will in fact be completed for $352,365, officials say.

The city and county governments will split that cost down the middle, which would have been as much as $450,000 for each under earlier estimates, but now has been trimmed to about $175,000.

This is a good example of how tough economic times can lead to substantial savings, ...

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