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Infrastructure contract approved for Aldon Station

By Kevin Boneske
Staff Writer


ASHWAUBENON – The village board approved an infrastructure construction contract Tuesday, Oct. 22, with RiverView Construction for $3.1 million to redevelop the former Schneider trucking maintenance facility site for residential use.

In the months following the village’s purchase of the 20-plus acres of property along South Broadway for $1.25 million, Public Works Director Doug Martin said the village has approved contracts for asbestos removal and remediation as well as above-ground demolition of all buildings with that work having been completed.

He said the design work has wrapped up related to the site grading plan, site utilities and roadway plan to have the infrastructure for the property to be known as Aldon Station redeveloped into residential lots for future sale.

Martin said the village received five bids for the project with the base bids ranging from around $2.7 million to $3.7 million.

“Due to the complexity of this project – you’re dealing with site contaminants, moving site contaminants, various (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources) approvals – we had to put some supplemental bid items (added to the base bid),” he said. “Some of those include if we run into more contaminants than what the soil testing is showing us to date.”

Martin said the supplemental bid items are available to use upfront instead of having a change order that a contractor could increase its prices.

He said a supplemental bid item involved landfill tipping fees, because all contaminated material has to go to a landfill, with the village paying those fees so there won’t be any taxes charged with an overall lower price.

Martin said two alternate bid items relate to water main piping on the site.

“The DNR reviews every water main design that we do and we put in the ground,” he said. “We typically use PVC pipe for our water main in the village. Because we’re dealing with contaminated or formerly contaminated soils, the DNR, through their review, required ductile iron water main that is wrapped with polyethylene encasement and a different type of gasket to protect the water system in the future should anything migrate through.”

In a letter from McMahon Associates, which has been working with the village to prepare the site for residential use, additions to RiverView’s base bid of $2.7 million include $109,280 for alternate water main materials and another $320,000 with the supplemental bid for the landfill tipping fees.

Martin said RiverView has “a lot of manpower and a lot of equipment for doing a project just like we’re looking at here.”

“The amount that we’re awarding the contract for is actually a little less than what was budgeted, so we have a little contingency in there,” he said. “In a project of this nature, we need that contingency, so we were pleasantly surprised to see the bids come in where they did.”

Martin said there will be a contingency amount of approximately $200,000 available at the start of the infrastructure construction for Aldon Station.

Village Manager Allison Swanson said the village has bonded for the infrastructure work.

Community Development Director Aaron Schuette said he hopes to hear soon from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation regarding a $500,000 Idle Sites grant the village applied for the property redevelopment.

In September, the board approved a development agreement with Radue Homes, which will purchase the lots in the development from 2020-25.

The lots Radue Homes will pay for vary in cost under the agreement, ranging from $20,000 for the lowest-priced duplex lot to $450,000 for a waterfront condominium lot. The remaining Lot 1 is listed for approximately $1.35 million.

The agreement provides for the purchase of owner-occupied residential units that include 38 duplexes, 16 townhomes and five four-story condominium buildings.

Swanson said the village will be responsible for road construction, utilities and mitigation of environmental issues in the Aldon Station development area with the village’s costs being recovered from the sale of property.

A planned unit development was previously approved for the site, which has also been rezoned from I-2 heavy industrial to R-2 two-family residential and R-3 multi-family residential.

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