East Wenatchee Selects KRCI for 3rd St SE and Highline Drive Roundabout

East Wenatchee's KRCI was selected by the East Wenatchee City Council Tuesday evening as the winning bidder for the upcoming 3rd Street Southeast and Highline Drive Roundabout project.

KRCI had the lowest bid at $730,421. The engineer's estimate was $764,965.

The bid must still get approval from the Transportation Improvement Board (TIB), but that is considered more of formality.

Project Development Manager Tom Wachholder stated that after the TIB approves the bid, Mayor Jerrilea Crawford will execute the contract and a construction start date will be set between now and July 13th.

"So once we have an established construction start date, then we will conduct an outreach effort to let local businesses and the community know when they are going to start." Wachholder said, "There will be obviously some substantial detours associated with this project."

The project is slated to take ten weeks. KRCI is expected to start well before July 13th, and could start as early as March if the weather and project plan permits. Wachholder added that the worst-case scenario would see the project finished by the end of September.