The Youngstown Central Area Community Improvement Corporation is accepting proposals from companies interested in designing and building the Taft Technology Center. There will be a mandatory prebid conference at 2 p.m. on January 22nd at the Youngstown Business Incubator for those interested in the job. Proposals will be accepted until February 5th 2007, when the Community Improvement Corporation will open the bids at 2 p.m. to begin their review of the proposals. They will award the contract no later than forty-five days after the deadline. Construction will be set to start in March 2007 with a December 17th completion date.

The Taft Technology center will be three-stories tall, around 30,000 square feet, and will be built between the business incubator and the Semple Building on West Federal Street. Named after our departed Governor Taft, who helped to obtain 3.5 million dollars for the facility in state funds, altogether the project will amount to 5.9 million dollars. Apparently the state will also be providing 2.75 million dollars for another 5.9 million dollar technology project on West Federal Street, but this will be a project completed in phases.

If your company is interested, be sure to make the January 22nd mandatory prebid conference.