Major improvements made at Electric Works ahead of fall construction

Noticeable improvements have been made over the past few months to the buildings involved in the Electric Works projects.

Developers of the electric works project provided an inside look at their progress so f caleb saylor went on a tour of the former g-e campus today and has an update on the project.

Noticeable improvements have been made over the past few months to the buildings involved in the electric works projects.

Most of the progress made includes environmental remediation to remove asbestos and lead-based paint.

City councilman geoff paddock has been in the buildings several times over the past year, but didn expect to see such improvement.ell i was hoping to see some environmental remediation work, but i was kind of, my socks were kind of knocked off when i came through here, to be honest with you, because we e seen just a subst amount w rk that i didn expect to see at this level.

Other improvements include cleaning floors and restoring brick walls to preserve the national historic standing rtm ventures hosted do it best officials yesterday to give theme look a what they moving into.

Kevan biggs with rtm says they were impressed as well, hoping it drives job creationhis the area.

Is w y we are doing this, it for job creation and so to see the transformation of this building, to be able to visualize the headquarters of our anchor tenant occupying this space i think was a strong impression we wanted to make.

Hundreds of millions of dollars, talk surrounding mone has been on everyone mind, but paddock says developers have been able to do more than expected with some of the the tax dollars that have been committed to the projhey e been very, very good with the dollars that were approved for this particular project.

My understanding is that it went under budget and they were able to go through many more areas for environmental clean up, so i be more thrilled.

Is slated for early fall, with construction companies meeting today at the electric works sites, hoping they can help contribute to its development.

In fort wayne, caleb saylor, fox 55 news and if there's something you want to see at electric works, there's still time to make your voice heard.

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