If all goes according to plan, renovations at the former administration building for Jackson Energy Authority at 119 E. College St., should be completed in about four months.
“The contractor has been renovating the building since about the first of the year and he is making good progress on it,” said Jim Ferrell, JEA’s president/CEO, “He is expecting to have it completed in October, so we sent out bids for the office furnishings for the building so those furnishings will arrive about the same time the building is being completed.”
JEA’s Board of Directors received three bids from Office Interiors, Memphis; A-Z Office Resource Inc., Jackson, and Workspace Interiors, Boca Raton, Florida.
JEA approved a low bid of $236,687.17 from Office Interiors of Memphis.
Damaged by a water leak in 2013, all interior rooms at the facility were removed by a demolition project, which was completed in 2014.
The Board authorized a contract with TLM Associates, Inc., for design services.
JEA will move its HR Department, IT Department and Call Center into the building.
The estimated cost of renovation was $3,000,000.
(PHOTO: JEA renovations continue at 119 East College Street)
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