{"id":1139,"date":"2022-11-01T12:20:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2023-01-26T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T18:04:56","slug":"melrose-moves-forward-with-library-project-after-cost-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/2022\/11\/01\/melrose-moves-forward-with-library-project-after-cost-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Melrose Moves Forward With Library Project After Cost Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Patch) Melrose\u2019s long-awaited library renovation project recently took a step forward with the signing of a contract to begin the project\u2019s construction phase, Mayor Paul Brodeur announced on Wednesday.<br>Following uncertainty over potential cost increases in recent months, Brodeur confirmed that the cost of the city\u2019s contract with the Massachusetts-based Castagna Construction Corporation is roughly 12% higher than estimates available when the City Council approved the project last year.<br>The city has adjusted, though, with officials saying this week that a combination of state, federal and Library Trustees money has allowed the project to proceed without a need for new city bond funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/massachusetts\/melrose\/melrose-moves-forward-library-project-costs-spike\"><em>Read more from Patch<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Patch) Melrose\u2019s long-awaited library renovation project recently took a step forward with the signing of a contract to begin the project\u2019s construction phase, Mayor Paul Brodeur announced on Wednesday.Following uncertainty over potential cost increases in recent months, Brodeur confirmed that the cost of the city\u2019s contract with the Massachusetts-based Castagna Construction Corporation is roughly 12% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news-bites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}