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REAL unveils regional transit headquarters plan for FM 1554 site
Summary
Rural Economic Assistance League (REAL) presented final designs and a timeline for a funded, regional multimodal operations and maintenance facility at 349 Farm-to-Market 1554, saying the project requires no city construction funding and will include training space, vehicle maintenance and a rentable events center.
Martin Ordellas, director for the Rural Economic Assistance League (REAL), told the Alice City Council on Jan. 28 that REAL will build a regional transit operations and maintenance campus at 349 Farm-to-Market 1554.
Ordellas said the two-story, roughly 44,000-square-foot complex will include operations offices, a regional training center, vehicle maintenance bays for the agency’s fleet, a wash bay and fuel station, and rentable community event space. He said the facility will support REAL’s existing 82-vehicle fleet and estimated the project’s construction contract at $27,249,562, which REAL has already executed with Broadus Construction. Ordellas said the…
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