Construction bids for a new transit center and parking structure at Bob Hope Airport came in under budget this week, a reversal in fortune for a project that was put on a diet last year after the first round of building proposals came in at far more than anticipated.
In June, the so-called intermodal transit center — which will include facilities for rental cars and rail and bus lines to better connect passengers to the terminal — was scaled down after bids for the project came in $47 million to $75 million above the originally projected cost of $112 million.
The latest round of low bids came in more than $11 million below the new budget of $93 million, officials announced Friday. McCarthy Building Companies submitted a $72.7-million bid to build the transit center, while Bomel Construction Co. bid $8.5 million to build the parking structure, according to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority.
