The Bryan city council learns the city has received another $2 million dollars in insurance money to cover damages at the Phillips Events Center from damage sustained by winter storm Uri.
Deputy city manager Hugh Walker says some of what is now an $8 million dollar project is being put to changing the interior of the building.
Walker says eight contractors will be involved in the project.
The council held a special meeting last Friday to award change order contracts that were part of the council’s previously approved budget for the renovation.
Walker says the special meeting was needed so that eight contractors who were hired could keep working.
Walker says the reconstruction is expected to take around one year.
Walker estimates the city’s share will be $1.7 million, which is $200,000 dollars over what is currently authorized.
The building was opened around 1989, according to a member of the former Briarcrest Country Club committee that replaced the original structure which was built in the 1950’s.
Click below for comments from Hugh Walker, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver following the city council’s April 22, 2022 special meeting.