HOUMA, La. (AP) - The groundwork for the planned Terrebonne Parish government complex is complete, and officials are getting closer to starting construction.
Parish Capital Projects Administrator Jeanne Bray tells The Courier (https://bit.ly/1folE6W ) workers have finished the roads, pipes and water lines that will connect the site to the parish grid, which means ground will be broken soon for new buildings.
Bray says design plans for the new juvenile detention center, the animal shelter and a Public Works Department yard are in their final stages. Design plans for the Office of Emergency Preparedness are in the early stages.
The Public Works facility is expected go to bid by March. The detention center will follow shortly afterward and then bids will be requested for the shelter and emergency operations center.
The facilities will sit on the new the 30-acre parish complex, located off La. 24 north of the U.S. 90 overpass in Gray.
“Everything that we’ve planned to build will be under construction by 2014,” she said.
The new road to the complex will be called Bayou Country Boulevard and connects to La. 24 and the Harmony Bridge, Parish President Michel Claudet said.
The Public Works Department aims to create an 8-acre, $2.5 million facility to reduce the time its employees spend driving between the existing one on Grand Caillou Road and work sites in north Terrebonne. The existing yard would serve south Terrebonne.
The juvenile detention center, off Grand Caillou Road in Ashland, flooded during Hurricane Ike in 2008. The Parish Council said it needs more space for children. A new center will include more outdoor recreation space, an indoor gym, smaller dorm rooms and a kitchen where teenage inmates can learn cooking skills.
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Information from: The Courier, https://www.houmatoday.com
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