PRICE STYMIES STADIUM PROJECT LOWER BID FAR OVER ESTIMATE.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. -- Plans for a new stadium at Antelope Valley High School Antelope Valley High School is located in Lancaster, California and is part of the Antelope Valley Union High School District. It was founded in 1912[1]. It is located in the Mojave Desert. will be revised after the low construction bid came in at nearly twice the original estimate. The lower of two bids was $10.2 million, said Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale trustees. ``I was very disappointed,'' said board president Donita Winn. ``We are going to end up reconfiguring the stadium. ``It will probably end up looking like (Knight High School's) stadium. It's a nice stadium but not a state-of-the-art stadium that we had hoped to build for A.V.'' ``The cost of construction keeps going up, and we were not able to pass the bond, so everything is getting cut back.'' At a special meeting Monday, the school board rejected the bids. The board will consider seeking new bids in phases or redesigning the project. Plans had also included a $1.9 million proposal for a new parking lot but that was canceled after bids came in at double the amount, trustee Al Beattie said. The delay will not affect the upcoming school year's football season because all of Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley High's home games have been scheduled at other fields, trustees said. The new stadium will be shared by Antelope Valley and Eastside high schools Eastside High School or East Side High School can refer to:
The city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. is contributing $4.5 million in redevelopment funds toward the project. ``It's very frustrating frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: . We all know prices have been increasing. It took the state 19 months to approve the plans. In part, the delays are existing in school construction that shouldn't be there,'' Beattie said. ``Then there were a lot of additional requirements made by the county to the structure which weren't anticipated.'' Administrative staff recommended scaling back the stadium project by installing portable restrooms rather than concrete-block ones and by eliminating a visitor-side snack bar and wind barriers. ``I'm hopeful we will get the initial group of bids out, on demolition Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. It contrasts with deconstruction, which is the taking down of a building while carefully preserving valuable elements for re-use. and off-site improvements, and then have a work study and have the architect show us something more than building bleachers,'' Beattie said. ``We need to do something there. The community needs something there that will help improve overall conditions.'' Higher construction district officials to announce in March they would have to get Eastide High School's permanent campus developed in phases, rather than all at once, after the sole construction bid came in nearly 50 percent over the estimated cost of $95 million. karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 |
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