Fire station construction contract terminated

March 20, 2019 | LXXVIII, No.52

The hull of the fire station as it stands so far awaits another contractor to finish the job. - Jacob Wagner photo

A $13.6 million fire station being built for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation along SR-155 has faced numerous delays, and a bigger delay now with the termination of the contract between the bureau and the construction company.

The contract for the project was awarded to Post Falls, Idaho-based Innovative Construction & Design Ltd. in 2016, with construction beginning in April of 2017. The building was originally scheduled to be complete in April 2018, according to a bureau press release issued in September of 2016.

Since then, numerous delays have pushed the completion date back, with lit...

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