COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater City Council will be asked on Tuesday to approve a bid of just over $492,000 from Parrish Excavating of Quincy for the construction of Western Meadows Phase 1 in the area of Western Avenue and State Street.
The City bought about 14 1/2 acres on Western Avenue in October 2016 from Robert Rumsey for $95,819 with plans to use the land for future housing development.
The bid from Parrish was one of three submitted to the city. The others were submitted by Concord Excavating & Grading at over $577,000 and Mead Brothers Excavating at just under $702,000.
City Manager Keith Baker says in his memo to the Council that Parrish has successfully completed previous projects for the City of Coldwater and that this project will have a one-year warranty for materials and workmanship.
Baker says the project is being budgeted in the 2024-25 fiscal year and would be funded through the City’s Capital Improvement Fund which is separate from the City’s General Fund.
The City Council approved an agreement and resolution last October to have the City’s engineering firm Fishbeck out of Lansing begin the design work for the first phase of the project.
Day by day our small town is slipping away. Coldwater is like a lot of towns and cities that are seeing a flood of foreigners. Some have come in with work permits to work at mainly 3 factories others have crossed the border and come in on President Bidens open door policy. Appartments are being built like there is no tomorrow. Traffic in and around the city has become challenging and scary at times. Our onetime resturants and stripmall facillities have become filled with legal dope stores. This is progress? Yes it is progressive, but I fear it is the type of progress that leads to a spraling high crime city that has lost its friendly small town identity for good. All in the name of Progress.