City awards bid for demolition of old city hall

Shakopee Valley News

The old city hall will soon come down.

The Shakopee City Council awarded a contract to Frattalone Companies for $191,800 for the abatement, demolition and earthwork for the old city hall building on Holmes Street.

"We got a substantial number of bids," Planning and Development Director Michael Kerski said during the meeting.

The city received seven bids from Frattalone Companies at $191,800 to a high bid of $391,500.

The building will be removed by late January. The company demolished the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis.

"It's a pretty large company and we have pretty good confidence in them," Kerski said.

City hall contains hazardous materials that will need to be removed and properly disposed of, according to the council memo on the project.

Once the building is demolished, the site will be available for redevelopment. Requests for proposals from developers are due in January.

The basement will remain and be filled in. If it were removed, the railway, street, alley and utilities would collapse into the basement, according to the memo.

In other action, the council:

• Authorized a contract with Medica for city employee health insurance. Medica raised rates by 29 percent in late August. Instead of accepting the increase, the city will allow employees to choose from the Park Nicollet, the Ridgeview and the Vantage networks. The city will also be offering a plan with a higher deductible. 

• Held a workshop on woodland management and landscape regulation. Changes would be made to the land development code and would work to simplify the language of the regulations as well as including charts and spreadsheets on types of trees and what to save when doing development in an area. Staff will come back to council in the future with a proposed change for approval.

• Approved a preliminary and final plat of the West Shakopee Gateway First Addition, which will be the future location of Doggie Doo's a rehabilitation center. Doggie Doo's former site was purchased by the city for redevelopment.

• Approved a site plan for the Memorial Park Historical Area, which will place signs detailing historical significance along a trail in Shakopee. The Shakopee Heritage Society would fund the majority of the project and upkeep of the signs. "I think it's a really neat and nice project," Councilor Matt Lehman said.