A construction management firm has recommended that a Salt Lake company be awarded the contract to build the new Riverton Branch Library.
Project manager Mark R. Nelson of Beneco Enterprises Inc., the county's management firm, said Tuesday that he had sent a letter to Salt Lake County commissioners recommending that Paulsen Construction be awarded the contract.The matter is scheduled to be discussed by commissioners at their Monday, March 2, meeting.
Paulsen Construction bid $1,316,000 for the library. Twenty-one firms bid on the project with most of the bids in the $1.3 million range. A Murray firm that submitted the apparent low bid later withdrew its bid, Nelson said earlier this month.
MHTN Architects, Salt Lake City, designed a 13,400-square-foot building to be constructed on 1.55 acres of land on the southwest corner of the Riverton Community Center at approximately 12860 S. Redwood Road.
The Salt Lake County Library Board discussed the Riverton library and other projects during its meeting Monday, Feb. 23, at Whitmore Library.
Eileen B. Longsworth, director of the Salt Lake County Library System, said groundbreaking for the Riverton Library is tentatively set for noon March 21.
County library officials are still endeavoring to work out a contract for land for a future new library in Draper, Longsworth said. A major renovation project is under way at Park library in Taylorsville, where a new circulation desk area is being built. The project will make library operations there more efficient, the director said.