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Article: City Dock work cost balloons to $8.8M
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2006
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The cost of bulkhead replacements and other improvements to City
Dock has ballooned to nearly $9 million dollars for the pending
yearlong project.
Costs for the extensive renovation more than doubled after
officials underestimated the amount of materials needed for
installation of new steel bulkheads and the State Department of
Natural Resources requested electrical and pier improvements,
according to budget revision requests.
Donna Hole, city chief of historic preservation, said visually,
the dock area will change very little, but will be better organized
and safer.
"It's really the infrastructure that is the issue," Ms. Hole said.
"The bulkhead is failing and has to be redone so we are ...