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Trumbull County weighs a scaled-down dog kennel after redesign cuts price and footprint
Summary
County designers presented a pared-back plan for a new Trumbull County dog kennel on AWL-donated land, trimming the footprint and some features to bring estimated costs down from $3.3 million toward roughly $2 million; commissioners asked staff to review the revised plans and return with recommendations.
County architects presented revised plans for a proposed Trumbull County dog kennel that reduce the building footprint and remove higher-cost features in an effort to bring the project within a lower price range.
Snyder, the lead consultant on the redesign, told commissioners the original conceptwas a 6,0007,000-square-foot facility with extensive features and a rough order of magnitude of about $3.3 million. After trimming offices, eliminating an indoor play area and deleting heated slab and indoor/outdoor kennels, the plan shrank to roughly 5,600 square feet. "We reduced the footprint from what was 7,400 to 5,600," Snyder said, adding that simplified construction and removing…
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