MARQUETTE, MI-- Construction has begun on a new road maintenance facility for the Marquette County Road Commission.
Engineer-manager Jim Iwanicki says the current facility in Big Bay doesn’t meet their needs. The Commission needs more space and a better salt shed.
Iwanicki says the $2.5 million project was funded through a public-private partnership, which saves time and money.
“It’s a way for banks to give us a very good interest loan, it’s a way for the banks to write some of that loan off by loaning governmental entities this small amount of money, and it’s a way, by doing design build, that we can get a facility done in a very expedient manner,” he says.
Land has already been cleared for the new facility, which is off of County Road 550 about a mile south of Big Bay. It’s set to be completed in November of this year.
