{"id":1520,"date":"2007-11-17T12:29:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2007-11-17T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T19:29:44","slug":"alga-norte-park-construction-bid-comes-in-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"Alga Norte Park Construction Bid Comes In Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/110p.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/110p.jpg','popup','width=400,height=503,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/110p-tm.jpg\" height=\"251\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"110P\" \/><\/a>Carlsbad city officials were surprised when they saw the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadca.gov\/planning\/mstplan.html?ciptype=plan&amp;cip=61\" target=\"_blank\">Alga Norte Park<\/a><\/strong> project bid from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consolidatedcontracting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Consolidated Contracting Services<\/a><\/strong> of San Clemente because at $29.3 million it was $10 million lower than the next closest bid, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/11\/17\/news\/coastal\/2_01_5011_16_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The park, which will include a &#8220;multi-pool swim complex,&#8221; ballfields, playgrounds for kids, and most importantly a skatepark, sits on 33 acres at the corner of Poinsettia and El Camino Real. But why was Consolidated&#8217;s bid so low?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . an official with the architectural firm that drew up the park plans attributed the low construction bids to a variety of factors. Everything from having good plans to work with to a slumping construction industry helped, said <strong>Joniene Swick<\/strong> of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wimmer Yamada &#38; Caughey<\/a><\/strong>. . . .  The economy could be playing a part, others said. Bids for several recent government projects in San Diego County, including a Highway 52 proposal, have come in lower than expected, said a representative for Associated General Contractors &#8212;- a national organization that represents some 1,400 contractors who bid on government projects in the San Diego region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, as long as the cost savings doesn&#8217;t come at the skatepark&#8217;s expense (as usually is the case) then we&#8217;re all good. We&#8217;ll be watching you Consolidated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/11\/17\/news\/coastal\/2_01_5011_16_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad city officials were surprised when they saw the Alga Norte Park project bid from Consolidated Contracting Services of San Clemente because at $29.3 million it was $10 million lower than the next closest bid, according to a story in the North County Times. The park, which will include a &#8220;multi-pool swim complex,&#8221; ballfields, playgrounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}