Economic Development Authority met on Mar. 22

Bids for the county’s new elementary school in Blue Ridge will go out on April 1, according to Project Manager Jim Whitten. Whitten told members of the Botetourt County Economic Development Authority at the March 22 meeting that he expected at least seven bids for construction on the school.

The bidding process will close April 30, and once a contract is awarded, construction should begin this summer.

Grading at the facility recently resumed thanks to better weather, Witten said. “The grading’s going well and they had 12 pieces of equipment running,” he told the EDA members.

The EDA members also approved a modification to the bond for the county’s YMCA. Other discussion included the possible construction of a new road in the Botetourt Center at Greenfield business park to open access to three available lots that do not have road frontage. The Board of Supervisors will take a look at this project at its March 26 meeting.

The EDA went into closed session to discuss prospective businesses or expansions of existing businesses in Greenfield, East Park, and in the Fincastle Magisterial District.

                                                                                                       

– Submitted by Anita Firebaugh, special to The Botetourt Bee; Photo courtesy of GTEC