Core Construction gets $6.5M VA contract in Viera Florida

Core gets $6.5M VA contract in Viera
Orlando Business Journal
Core Engineering & Construction Inc. received a $6.5 million task order to build a 30,000-square-foot addition to a Veterans Administration facility in Viera.

Winter Park-based Core, which got the contract in September, will build a single-story addition of a VA outpatient clinic onto the existing 1.2 million square-foot medical complex. adding 80 rooms to the existing 130, said Paul Goldsmith, president of Core.

Site work began earlier this month and the project is expected to be completed in December 2010.

The contract is part of a larger, $50 million prime contract Core received last year from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers mobile district. Core also is handling construction services for the renovation of a dental clinic and replacing the Orlando VA Lakemont campus, said a news release.
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