City officials are moving ahead on replacement of an airport
building destroyed by fire in November 2002. Hollister City Council
members Monday agreed to request bids on the project, expected to
cost $2.1 million, which an insurance company is set to fund.
HOLLISTER
City officials are moving ahead on replacement of an airport building destroyed by fire in November 2002.
Hollister City Council members Monday agreed to request bids on the project, expected to cost $2.1 million, which an insurance company is set to fund.
Hollister officials have been held up in progressing on the construction due to a legal dispute between the city and insurance company over paying for the building, which had been located in what is now a vacant area to the right of the airport entrance.
The city’s lawsuit filed five years ago prevailed, as did an appeal filed by the insurance company.
“They just have to reimburse us for it,” City Manager Clint Quilter said. “They’ll be involved the whole way through.”
The city must be under contract for the new building’s construction by April, after which the project should take about a year, Quilter said. The 18,000-square-foot building had been used as rental space “as far as anybody knows,” the city manager said.
