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Watsonville, Calif.-based Granite Construction won one $55 million contract to widen a section of Grant Road in Tucson, Arizona, the contractor announced Jan. 31.
According to Granite, the project involves widening Grant Road to provide six passing lanes and a median with left turn lane pockets.
It also includes new sidewalks, curbs, landscaping, traffic signals, street lights and a detention pond. The underground work will include water main replacement, sewer additions, cross box culverts and storm drains, as well as a large 96-inch diameter culvert to mitigate storm runoff.
The granite will extend approximately 1.5 miles of the causeway, one of Tucson’s main surface thoroughfares, from Palo Verde Boulevard to Venice Place. The work is part of phase 3 and 4 of the larger phase Subsidy Road improvement project which has been ongoing since at least 2013, when it is the first phase was completed.
This project, in turn, is part of $2.1 billion Pima County Regional Transportation Authority 20-year plan, which is financing the work.
While Granite’s current portion of the project is a relatively modest amount, it aligns with the contractor’s updated strategy of targeting smaller, more manageable contracts that have shorter timelines, and are therefore easier to budget and estimate , than billion-dollar megaprojects.
It also fits Granite’s “home market” strategy of targeting jobs in regions where it also operates aggregate and road materials facilities. The company’s nearby Swan Plant facility will provide 36,000 tons of hot mix asphalt for the project, deliver 40,000 tons of aggregate, and collect 32,500 pounds of stormwater and sewer and shade sand .
“In addition to serving as an anchor project for the Arizona region and local workforce, the project also complements our vertically integrated business with the need for aggregates and asphalt on the project,” said Todd Hill , Granite’s vice president of regional operations. at launch.
Granite plans to start construction in April 2024 and finish in December 2026.
