Waterfront work continues at Ross’s Landing Wednesday, October 7, 2015.Read more
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Repairs to Chattanooga’s crumbling riverfront will take longer than expected after engineers unearthed new issues with the steel and concrete structure that undergirds Ross’s Landing, city officials said Friday.
Officials initially said repairs would be finished in time for this year’s Riverbend festival in June, but now work is expected to continue to Jan. 1, 2016, said Chattanooga Public Works Administrator Lee Norris.
As a result, the city is renegotiating its agreement with Smith Contractors, the company that was awarded the construction job, Norris said. The Chattanooga City Council will hear this change order at its Nov. 3 meeting.
“We knew there were some other problems,” Norris said Friday of the infrastructure on Ross’s Landing, “but we didn’t know how bad they were.”