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Ports Commission approves infrastructure projects, new tenant lease INDIANAPOLIS - The Ports of Indiana commission met Feb. 21 in Indianapolis to approve nearly $1 million in port projects and a lease for Jeffersonville’s newest port tenant. The commission finalized a lease agreement with Walsh Construction and VINCI Construction Grands Projets for five acres at the Port of Indiana-Jeffersonville. The companies formed a joint venture for the design and construction of the nearby East End Crossing of the Ohio River Bridges Project. The new lease includes 29,000-square-feet of office and industrial space at the port to be used as the project’s construction headquarters. The commission also awarded a contract for replacing a storm culvert at the Jeffersonville port to Sedam Contracting Corp., of Hanover, Ind., in the amount of $285,569. The work will include replacing an old storm culvert under Port Road and repaving the intersection of Port Road and Middle Road. The damaged asphalt pavement will be replaced with reinforced concrete that is better suited to withstand the stop-and-go traffic of heavy loads. Three contracts were approved at the meeting for the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor. The commission awarded a contract to Beaman Associates of Indianapolis to design a warehouse to provide additional storage options at the port. The 75,000-square-foot
facility will offer flexibility in storing a wide-variety of materials and is needed in response to growing interest in short-term indoor storage options for steel and other industrial products. The commission also approved contracts related to security cameras and signage that will be primarily funded through federal port security grants. The projects included contracts with Midwestern Electric from East Chicago, Ind., for $348,445 and Baldus Co., of Fort Wayne, Ind., for $31,100. For the Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon, the commission approved a change order involving emergency repair work on mooring cells to Foertsch Construction Co. in the amount of $518,677. A recent underwater inspection had indicated an additional need for immediate structural repairs similar to work Foertsch was already completing at the port, which allowed the urgent repairs to be completed under an existing contract. The commission also ratified a license agreement with Time Warner Cable for the installation of fiber-optic and coaxial cable lines, bringing high-speed internet services into the port. The new connection will significantly upgrade the internet access capabilities and reduce costs for current and future port companies.
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