At a special Martinsburg-Berkeley County Parks and Recreation meeting, board members chose Martinsburg company W. Harley Miller Contracting Inc. to be the construction company for the upcoming South Berkeley Recreation Center.
Board members accepted the $2,159,000 bid proposal from W. Harley Miller, which Executive Director Steve Catlett said included all of the equipment for the gymnasium like the scoreboards, baskets and curtains.
After the Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation approved an additional $600,000 for the project, a total of $2,100,000 is being given through the foundation and the Randy Smith Fund, leaving $59,000 to be collected through additional funding resources.
"We're selling sponsorships and stuff, so we'll make that up easily. That won't be a problem at all," Catlett said. "What we're trying to sell total is about $90,000 worth of sponsorships."
Additional money raised for the recreation center could be used for multiple additions to the building not included in the base bid, such as sound absorbing panels, exterior masonry or the instillation of ceramic tile.
The South Berkeley Parks and Recreation Center will be located in Inwood next to Musselman High School.
"It's going to have the main gymnasium, a double gymnasium with all the support stuff like administrative offices, restrooms lobby, concessions, whatever it takes. The structure we're building now, like we did (at the Berkeley 2000 Recreation Center) where we built an original structure and then expanded it several times, we will have room for expansion (at the South Berkeley location) as well," Catlett said.
Since board members just approved a construction company for the project, a beginning and completion date for the project won't be known until a meeting with W. Harley Miller, although Catlett hopes the center will be open to the community by winter 2013.
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