Two Bids Awarded For MacArthur School Reconstruction

Two bids worth $14.2 million were awarded by the Binghamton school board on Tuesday as they look to start construction on the MacArthur Elementary School. Site work will be performed for $5.8 million by a Binghamton construction company, with Rochester-based LeChase Construction operating out of their Binghamton office to do structural work for $8.4 million. The school was irreparably damaged by flooding back in 2011. The state’s Education Department recently approved the rest of the district’s construction plans, and the approval process took longer than the school had planned for in its original timeline. Currently the school is still slated to be open by September of 2015, but small projects may have to continue in the building through December of next year.