By Gary Lloyd
TRUSSVILLE — Trussville-based Blalock Building Company recently won the AGC 2014 BuildSouth Award for the additions and renovations to Calera Middle School.
The new main school building includes a board room, choral room and specialty labs for industrial arts, computer and business courses and an art studio.
Blalock Building Company is contracted to construct the new Hewitt-Trussville Stadium behind the Trussville Civic Center. Blalock Building Company was revealed as the project’s low bidder last summer, with an adjusted base bid — after a 0,000 deduct — of ,353,900. After six alternate bids for aspects of the project — precast concrete visitor seating, multipurpose field lighting package and overflow parking, kitchen equipment upgrade for the visitor concession, precast concrete for a home side and visitor side expansion and soccer concessions/restroom building — Blalock’s bid totaled ,626,550.
In other business news, Bojangles’ opened in Trussville on Monday on U.S. Highway 11. Reef Revolution, a store specializing in saltwater corals and fish, opens on Old Springville Road in Clay on Saturday.
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