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The Grant Road Improvement Project becomes part of Pima County’s $2.1 billion, 20-year local transport strategy.
The Tucson, Arizona, job includes broadening Grant Road to supply 6 through lanes and a typical with left turn lane pockets.
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Award: Grant Road Improvement Project
Worth: $55 million
Area: Tucson, Arizona
Customer: Pima County Regional Transportation Authority
Watsonville, California-based Granite Construction won a $55 million agreement to expand an area of Grant Road in Tucson, Arizona, the specialist revealed Jan. 31.
The task includes broadening Grant Road to offer 6 through lanes and a typical with left turn lane pockets, according to Granite.
It likewise consists of brand-new curbs, pathways, landscaping, traffic signals, streetlights and a detention pond. Below ground work will consist of a water pipe replacement, sewage system primary additions, cross street box culverts and storm drains pipes in addition to a big 96″ size culvert to reduce storm overflow.
Granite will broaden around 1.5 miles of the street, a significant surface area street road in Tucson, from Palo Verde Boulevard to Venice Place. The task belongs to Phase 3 and 4 of the bigger Grant Road Improvement Project that has actually been continuous considering that a minimum of 2013, when its Stage was finished
That task, in turn, belongs to Pima County’s $2.1 billion Regional Transportation Authority’s 20-year strategy, which is moneying the task.
While Granite’s existing part on the task is a reasonably modest quantity, it lines up with the professional’s upgraded technique of targeting smaller sized, more workable agreements that have much shorter timelines– and hence are simpler to budget plan and price quote– than billion-dollar mega jobs.
It likewise suits Granite’s “home market” technique targeting tasks in areas where it likewise runs aggregate and roadway product centers. The company’s close-by Swan Plant center will supply 36,000 lots of hot-mix asphalt for the job, provide 40,000 lots of aggregate base course and source 32,500 pounds of stormwater and sewage system bed linen and shading sand.
“In addition to functioning as an anchor job to the Arizona area and regional labor force, the job likewise compliments our vertically incorporated company with a requirement for aggregates and asphalt on the task,” stated Todd Hill, Granite’s vice president of local operations, in the release.
Granite anticipates to start operate in April 2024 and end up the task by December 2026.