The City of Terrace may be facing challenges in finding bidders for some of its 2022 construction projects, but it has been successful with others.
Uplands Nursery was awarded the contract May 2 for the completion of sidewalk and other improvements on Lazelle Ave. in the downtown core.
With a project value of $280,000 this is the second year of a two-year effort to modernize the sidewalk along Lazelle Ave. that began last year on the 4600 Block and continues now on the 4700 Block. Uplands also did the work last year.
The work consists of installing brick pavers in grass boulevard strips, adding trees, bike racks, garbage cans and other improvements — basically the same improvements along Lakelse Ave. of several years ago.
The money for this comes from a major provincial grant the city got in 2019 and again in 2020 for larger-scale capital projects.
And the city did receive two acceptable bids on work to remove potential rock falling hazards along sections of the planned pathway from Apsley Street where it meets Lakelse Ave. to the old Skeena Bridge.
Awarding the contract, however, is pending finding a contractor to build the pathway itself, said city engineering and public works director Jonathan Lambert.
The city is making a second attempt to attract qualified bidders for that project and bids close on May 10.