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Canton OKs $895K street paving contract

Bartow Paving Co. Inc. has won an $895,000 contract from Canton to resurface local streets, including Academy and Archer streets downtown. AJC FILE
Bartow Paving Co. Inc. has won an $895,000 contract from Canton to resurface local streets, including Academy and Archer streets downtown. AJC FILE
By David Ibata for the AJC
Sept 1, 2020

The Canton City Council has awarded a contract worth nearly $900,000 to resurface streets, a project funded by the city’s 2020 Local Maintenance & Improvement Grant from the Georgia Department of Transportation.

Bartow Paving Co. Inc. submitted the lowest of three bids for the work. The project is divided into two parts: $765,701 for Academy and Archer streets downtown, and Great Sky Parkway, Greenbrier Way and Mountain Laurel Walk in the Great Sky community; and an optional portion of $130,273 for streets in the Towne Mill neighborhood, including Towne Mill Crossing and Towne Mill Avenue.

Work is expected to start Oct. 1 and be completed this fall, weather permitting.

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