Article: Outpost completion postponed for another semester

Roxanne Moreno
University Wire
06-29-2007
(Daily Forty-Niner) (U-WIRE) LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The $3.6 million expansion of The Outpost on the northeast end of the Cal State-Long Beach campus is delayed an extra semester to fall 2008 because the 49er Shops, Inc. cannot find a contractor that comes within the budget.

Bids for this project by construction contractors have been rejected "due to the increase over the architect's original estimate," said Clint Campbell, contract administrator and facilities manager of the 49er Shops, Inc.

The documents that the contractors used to calculate the cost were revised. "We'll know more about why the architects and the contractor's estimates are so ...

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