PULLMAN, WA – Delays continue with completion of the Pullman downtown reconstruction project as crews are back to work this week.

Work started two weeks ago on the remaining items left over from last year’s major construction project.  The last schedule had expected completion for the remaining work to have been done this past Friday.  Some electrical work, paving, landscaping, signage and road striping didn’t get done during last year’s construction schedule.  Crews restarted the job site this spring following the winter shutdown.

City officials now say these final items should be done by this Friday.  The work will continue to cause some minor traffic disruptions and parking closures downtown.

The project was initially scheduled to only take four months.  Crews spent 9 months last year rebuilding Main Street and the underground utilities and installing new sidewalks.  Main Street downtown was closed to traffic for over seven months.

The project has now entered its second year and continues to run months behind schedule and hundreds of thousands of dollars over budget.  The City of Pullman is using 9 million dollars in federal government COVID relief money to pay for most of the project which is now over 12 million dollars.