{"id":1320122,"date":"2020-05-20T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=478225"},"modified":"2020-05-20T16:17:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:17:24","slug":"vail-town-council-delays-4-6-million-construction-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/vail-town-council-delays-4-6-million-construction-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Vail Town Council delays $4.6 million construction project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"746\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/VailWallProjectDelay-VDN-052120-1024x746.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/VailWallProjectDelay-VDN-052120-1024x746.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/VailWallProjectDelay-VDN-052120-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/VailWallProjectDelay-VDN-052120-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/VailWallProjectDelay-VDN-052120-1536x1120.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/VailWallProjectDelay-VDN-052120-600x437.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/VailWallProjectDelay-VDN-052120.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>The Vail Town Council Tuesday agreed to delay a $4.6 million project to build a retaining wall at the town shop complex.<\/strong><br \/><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Buyer\u2019s remorse can apply to local government, too.<\/p>\n<p>The Vail Town Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to delay for at least a year a $4.6 million project at the town shop complex, which is on the north side of Interstate 70 between main Vail and East Vail interchanges.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after the council on May 5 voted 6-0 to approve the project. This year\u2019s portion of the project would have built a new retaining wall on the site. That wall is expected to be roughly 950 feet long and up to 22 feet high. The project would also have included a water line extension, drainage improvements and electric service improvements.<\/p>\n<p>When complete, the wall will free up nearly an acre of buildable space on the site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row vail-donation vail-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/03\/VD-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vaildaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/03\/VD-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>That work is needed before building a new streets maintenance building. That project has an estimated cost of $12.7.<\/p>\n<p>While the project is needed \u2014 much of the public works facility was built in 1979 \u2014 councilmembers agreed to delay the project due to economic uncertainty related to the COVID-19 virus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Jenn Bruno was the first to ask to reconsider the project. Bruno said she had second thoughts about the project shortly after she voted to approve it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we need this, and yes, it is budgeted, but we can wait a year and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Brian Stockmar made the motion to approve the project at the May 5 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>But, he said, he, too, soon started thinking about possibly delaying the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started to think about whether or not the timing was right,\u201d Stockmar said, adding that while the project is important in the long run, this year isn\u2019t a good time to start.<\/p>\n<p>Bruno, co-owner of the Luca Bruno clothing stores, said business owners she\u2019s been talking to lately believe that a \u201cgood\u201d summer this year will down 50% from last year. That led her to believe that the money budgeted for the retaining wall may be needed for more urgent town needs.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Dave Chapin noted that even as the virus fades, there\u2019s no way of knowing whether or not the next ski season will be successful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we do spend this money and have a bad snow year\u2026 we might not have the money to do other capital projects that are more important,\u201d Chapin said.<\/p>\n<p>Vail Public Works Director Greg Hall told councilmembers that some of the smaller items on the project list could be done this year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vail Daily Business Editor Scott Miller can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:smiller@vaildaily.com\">smiller@vaildaily.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/vail-town-council-delays-4-6-million-construction-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vail Town Council Tuesday agreed to delay a $4.6 million project to build a retaining wall at the town shop complex. Buyer\u2019s remorse can apply to local government, too. The Vail Town Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to delay for at least a year a $4.6 million project at the town shop complex, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1320122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 14:07:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320124,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320122\/revisions\/1320124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}