TRURO - Scaled-back renovations to Colchester Legion Stadium might get started next week.
The Town of Truro had hoped to have work well underway by this point in the summer but tenders came in $500,000 more than the town's $1.5-million budget. The town has sat down with a consultant and the company that bid on the project to try to reduce costs, but has now decided to contract out individual projects for the renovations.
"(We're) quite confident we'll be able to do the work we deem to be important work to be done before the opening in August. We're hoping the work gets started in a week," Mayor Bill Mills told the Truro Daily News this week.
"We're going to try to get as many parts of that whole project done with the budget that is allocated."
The project initially included the installation of an elevator, improvements to the washrooms, canteen, dressing rooms and the interior of the roof. It also included efficiency improvements identified by an energy audit.
As part of the central Nova Scotia civic centre project, $2.4 million was earmarked for renovations at Colchester Legion Stadium, which was built in 1965. The first phase of the renovations was done last summer by Flagship Construction and came in about $100,000 under the $773,200 budget.
