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Klamath County weighs demolition, rebuild for former bowling-alley Hub project
Summary
County staff and consultants presented new abatement and demolition bids for the former Hand Scams bowling alley and outlined cost, code and timeline trade-offs between retrofitting the existing building and full demolition and new construction.
Klamath County commissioners on Aug. 6 reviewed fresh bids and technical findings for the Klamath Hub project and discussed whether to repair and retrofit the existing former Hand Scams bowling alley or to demolish it and build new.
Consultant Kelsey Randall told the Board of Commissioners that the county received abatement-and-demolition bids the prior day in response to an ITB that asked contractors for two price schemes: “select demolition” (partial) and total demolition. Randall said a full code review found the change of occupancy would trigger current seismic upgrades and require fire suppression across roughly 22,000 square feet — making a full sprinkler system considerably more cost effective than sprinkling only two tenant areas.
The consultant presented a side-by-side summary that compared estimated costs, timelines and design constraints for renovating the existing structure versus building new. Randall…
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