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February 21, 2008

Sea-Tac rail station's new price tag: $74M

  • That's $22 million more than the original engineer's estimate for the light rail station, even with a scaled-down design.
    • By MARGIE SLOVAN
    Journal Staff Reporter

    Sound Transit has put a new price tag on the light rail station at Sea-Tac Airport after months of value engineering and negotiations with the contractor, Mowat Construction. It will cost $74 million — $22 million more than the engineer's estimate, even with a scaled-down design.

    The airport station was supposed to cost $52 million, but Sound Transit only received one bid for the project and it was $95.3 million. So the agency split the contract in two parts and retooled the design.


     
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