By Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Two parking lots behind Mequon City Hall will be reconstructed to create an additional 43 parking spots for the Mequon civic campus and Mequon Town Center.
The Mequon Common Council on Feb. 12 awarded a contract to Poblocki Paving for the reconstruction of the Mequon City Hall parking lot, as well as the parking lot for the former Logemann Center, which was demolished last summer.
The parking lots would be reconfigured to allow for more connectivity.
Construction is expected to begin in April and to be completed by Aug. 30.
The project will cost $922,873. The city will provide $400,996 in funding through the Mequon Town Center Tax Incremental Finance District. Another $305,388 will come from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's Green Solutions grant program.
The additional parking will help alleviate the parking shortage that has plagued the first phase of the Mequon Town Center, which features Cafe Hollander, Colectivo Coffee and other retailers at the northwestern corner of Cedarburg and Mequon roads.
To help fix the problem, the owner of the Mequon Town Center property has agreed to contribute $216,540, which is based on a March 2018 agreement to fund 42 shared parking spaces.
The $922,873 bid from Poblocki represents a roughly 15-percent savings from the lowest bid the city received last year.
Last year's lowest bid of $1.09 million also came from Poblocki. That bid included high costs for removing vegetation, so the city's public works department performed that work in late fall before the most recent bid requests were sent out.
When the parking lot is completed, Mequon City Administrator Williams Jones said, the city will work with the owners of the Mequon Town Center to emphasize the need for employees to park in the new expanded parking lot where the Logemann Center once stood.