Ground was officially broken Tuesday morning during a ceremony marking the start of work on Minocqua’s new 2.45 million dollar fire station just south of the Minocqua Area Chamber of Commerce. Taking part in the ceremony were town board members, Town Chairman Mark Hartzheim Director of Public Works Mark Pertile, Fire Chief Andy Petroski, MSA architect Al Szmanski, and representatives of Boson, the general contractor from Marshfield.
Boson project manager Jimmy Parilek explains the upcoming work schedule:
“We are planning to start clearing and grubbing the site and removing the trees and stripping the top soil in the next few weeks. The excavation should take four, five weeks and then we’ll get into footings and foundation. By mid summer we should be well into the masonry. Late summer we should be setting steel and getting the building enclosed. Then it’s just getting the finishes on the inside completed and turning over the building over in November.”
Including land purchase and other costs, the total project cost will be about 3.17 million dollars
