Tri-C Metro Campus — Center for Innovation in the Arts

In September, 2007, Independence Excavating was awarded the contract for sitework, concrete and elevators for the new Cuyahoga Community College Center for Innovation in the Arts Building.

Located on the south side of the college on Woodland Avenue, the 75,000 square foot facility will house Tri-C’s theater, dance, performance and recording arts programs. The building, designed by Robert P. Madison International, will also feature television and music studios, music practice rooms, an art gallery, general classrooms and office space. Space will also be occupied by the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for a library and archiving facility.

Tri-C selected Donley’s Inc. as Construction Manager for the project. Our bid package includes the structural concrete foundations, basement walls up to eighteen feet high, basement slab on grade, a one foot thick structural concrete slab for the first floor, slab on metal deck for the second and third floors, roof and penthouse as well as retaining walls for the lower level loading dock. The sitework portion of our contract includes site demolition, mass excavation and backfill and site utilities. Lastly, elevators, dock levelers and loading dock lifts are included in our scope of work.

Currently, Independence Excavating has substantially completed our scope of work and will return in the fall of 2008 to complete building backfill and installation of elevators and other dock equipment. The building is expected to open in fall, 2009.