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there have been some adjustments to make.
That includes the emergency funding from the City Council, he
said, adding that the amount allocated should cover the escalating cost of the project. But it also includes longer lead times for items and, in some cases, having to use different products or materials because the lead times are too long.
“As with every construction project going on right now, there have been a lot of items with long lead times — significantly longer
“As with every construction project going on right now, there have been a lot of items with long lead times — significantly longer than normal.”
than normal,” he explained. “We’ve been working through that with the designers to use some products that do what we need them to do, but also get here within the lead times. With the mechanical systems, one of the manufacturers that was specified for the unit heaters had a 52-week lead time; we found something we could get in the time frame in which we needed them.”
Finishing Work
The elaborate project is expected to be completed in the early fall of 2023, said Fontaine.
There will certainly be an elaborate ribbon-cutting ceremony at that time, one that will close the book on the long, often-frustrating efforts to create a new life for the historic property, and usher in the next chapter.
Fontaine can also close the book — figuratively but also quite literally — on more than 25 years of bidding on projects to trans- form the property.
That binder from 2000 is, as Fontaine said, a cool memento, but it’s also a symbol of this property and how long its fate has been a critical issue in Springfield. u
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This photo shows a row of the old hotel rooms before the masonry walls were torn down.
Photo by Joe Santa Maria, Kill the Ball Media
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As for the many challenges that come with building at this time, Fontaine said
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