PORT ANGELES — A two-month delay in the completion of the Gateway International Transportation Center is likely to cost an estimated additional $300,000.
The Gateway center is a joint project of the city of Port Angeles and Clallam Transit that was expected to cost $13.8 million.
It is on East Front Street and East Railroad Avenue between North Lincoln Street and North Laurel Street.
It includes a two-tiered parking garage, clock tower, public plaza, bus lanes, transit center, and a Port Angeles Police Department substation.
The project began in June 2007, and was originally expected to be completed by early September, said Roland Ordona, site superintendent for Primo Construction of Carlsborg, which is building the center,
Ordona said that now the project is scheduled to be “substantially completed” on Nov. 3.
That means that people can occupy the building while construction is still occurring, he said.
The delay will add about $300,000 to the estimated cost, he said.
Among the causes of the delay, he said, was a retaining wall along Front Street that was shallower than expected, and some “nit-picky” design issues.
Ordona said that the wall along Front Street delayed the project by a month and added approximately $150,000 to the project.
The foot of the wall had to be dug out in order to place a concrete slab for the parking garage, he said.
The wall had been built to raise the city streets during its early years.
An example of a design issue was changing the plans so that the bus lanes would be level with the sidewalks, he said.
The finishing touches of the Gateway project will include the interior work of the transit station, placing a layer of concrete in the plaza, and creating the pedestrian walkways and bus lanes, he said.
