Posted on 04/26/2011 5:54:14 PM PDT by matt04
WESTFIELD – How much does it cost for a 60-foot-tall clock tower erected as one of the capstones of a now nearly $80 million project to build a new bridge across the Westfield River here?
The price tag for the new clock that’s debuted along Routes 10 and 202 on Elm Street is $500,000. Whether it was federal, state or city money which paid for it isn’t exactly clear; the buyer apparently remains a mystery.
No matter what public funding source paid the bill, though, it’s among the expenditures for a project that’s been four years in construction, four decades in the making and now running at costs nearly 30 percent more than projected when ground was broken four years ago.
Installation of the clock was completed 10 days ago on the south side of the Great River Bridge project. Officials defend the project as a reinvention of the heart of this city.
The clock tower went up the same week that Mayor Daniel M. Knapik scrapped a controversial pavilion, also estimated to cost $500,000, from plans for redoing the other end of the city’s central business district.
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Westfield used to be known for “a bar on every corner and two between”
Meant to take peoples minds off the gas prices???
OTOH, showing autos running on "Mr. Fusion" instead of either the
coal or petroleum might be the way the Hollywood left would try
to help reinforce "hope & change" to the hoi polloi to distract
from the high gas prices.
LOL, My ex is from Westfield. It used to be known as the “whip city”, the foremost manufacturer of buggy whips in the USA. All in all a nice little self-contained city/town with some great folks.
LOL, My ex is from Westfield. It used to be known as the “whip city”, the foremost manufacturer of buggy whips in the USA. All in all a nice little self-contained city/town with some great folks.
LOL, My ex is from Westfield. It used to be known as the “whip city”, the foremost manufacturer of buggy whips in the USA. All in all a nice little self-contained city/town with some great folks.
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