Building Pad Ready to Launch
June 18, 2009 – The expansion of facilities at Living Hope Baptist Church has taken another big step with the leveling of the building pad, or site of the actual new construction. Pavement now covers gravel areas not being used for construction and is available for parking (despite several delays from rainy weather this spring and summer.
The Building Expansion Steering Committee met June 18 and discussed the next step – the bidding process. The Building and Planning Design team has been meeting regularly, working architect JRA and Associates and Wehr Constructors to ready the bid packages for sub-constractors. On Monday, June 22 at 2:00pm, a pre-bid meeting will take place for all prospective bidders in the auditorium of Living Hope Baptist Church. Wehr and JRA will prsesent visuals and specifications for all portions of the project and welcome questions from potential bidders. After bids are received, they will opened publicly on June 30 at 2:00pm, once again in the auditorium of Living Hope.
The bids will be evaluated and final bids awarded based on a number of criteria, including budget. Congregational approval will then be sought later this summer on the final scope of the project, which will include the final budget, exact facilties to be built in Phase One and renovations to existing structures. According to Building Steering Committee Chair Dennis Smith, actual new construction could begin in the late summer or early fall.
All systems are go for the expanded facilities of Living Hope!