COLUMBUS, Ind. — City officials may modify initial pieces of the NexusPark project, after cost estimates exceeded the $35 million budget for the work, though officials declined to give an exact figure on the overruns.
Associate Director of Recreation Nikki Murphy said at Monday’s Parks Board meeting that the city has received cost estimates from its construction manager, Taylor Brothers Construction Co., for the fieldhouse and community center phases of the project. The city’s architect for these pieces is Perkins and Will.
“We’ve … reviewed options for both phases and have been working closely with Perkins and Will and Taylor Brothers to pare those items down to a more feasible scope of work,” Murphy said. “And we are actively working on putting in alternates for those phases as well, alternate paths and alternate removals. So we will know more probably in the next couple of weeks, in terms of where that might settle down.”
She told The Republic that the cost estimates they’ve received were for “a full master planned build out” are and have not been finalized or phased. The estimates are “not applicable to the project as it will exist moving forward,” she said.
“The estimates were, as expected on these types of projects, over budget,” she said. “We are continuing to work with our team to hit our combined $35 million targeted, combined budget.”
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