Dayton-area businesses seek contract for Centerville’s Yankee Trace work

Ten Ohio businesses – mostly from the Dayton area - submitted bids to for Phase II of renovations at Centerville’s The Golf Club at Yankee Trace.  All phases of the project are an estimated to cost $1.8 million combined. CONTRIBUTED

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Ten Ohio businesses – mostly from the Dayton area - submitted bids to for Phase II of renovations at Centerville’s The Golf Club at Yankee Trace. All phases of the project are an estimated to cost $1.8 million combined. CONTRIBUTED

CENTERVILLE — Nine bids for the second phase of a $1.8 million renovation of The Golf Club at Yankee Trace are being evaluated by Centerville officials with the work expected to start next month.

Several Dayton-area businesses are vying for the project that will include revamping the 32,000 square foot clubhouse to the 150-acre site city-owned site at 10000 Yankee St.

Contractors from Arcanum, Beavercreek, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Fairborn, Lebanon and Moraine submitted base bids ranging from $239,500 to $347,000, plus alternative ones for work Centerville officials may include as an option, city records show.

“If we accept the alternate (bids) then it obviously plays a role into the awarded bid as a whole,” Centerville Assistant Finance Director Chris Hacker said.

“That’s up to our internal discussion and making sure we want to move forward,” he added. “If we don’t accept it, it will be awarded on the base bid alone.”

The businesses and their base bids — which were opened Tuesday — include: PCS & Build LLC, $329,900; Bilbrey Construction Inc., $303,411; Staffco Construction Inc., $299,000; Brumbaugh Construction Inc., $266,000; Wilcon Corp., $239,500; Setterlin Building Co., $347,000; Construction Group Inc., $325,500; Arcon Builders, $322,900; and Oberer Thompson Co., $345,000.

The alternate bids range from Wilcon’s $4,590 to Bilbrey’s $93,148 submission, city records show. Centerville had estimated the phase to cost $400,000.

“We’re still reviewing the bids,” Hacker said. “We’re just making sure that we vet them properly and do our due diligence.”

The plan is to present a recommendation at Monday night’s city council meeting, he said, with the work expected to be completed by early April.

Centerville officials say they want to modernize the 25-year-old clubhouse and rear patio to expand entertainment options, attract more weddings and special events to the city-owned golf course facility.

This phase will focus on the clubhouse interior and involve creating a bridal suite and a lounge by condensing spacious restrooms, officials have said. A permanent bar also will be installed in the ballroom.

Phase I involved installing a retractable audio/visual system. The final part of the project is expected to cost more than $1 million, Yankee Trace Administrator Steve Marino has said.

That work, tentatively set for fall 2021, will involve renovating the patio and adding an indoor/outdoor bar area to help transform the patio and the clubhouse into one entertainment unit, Marino has said.


YANKEE TRACE BIDS

Business Base bid

PCS & Build, LLC $329,900

Bilbrey Construction, Inc. $303,411

Staffco Construction, Inc. $299,000

Brumbaugh Construction, Inc. $266,000

Wilcon Corp. $239,500

Setterlin Building Co. $347,000

Conger Construction Group, Inc. $325,500

Arcon Builders $322,900

Oberer Thompson Co. $345,000

Source: City of Centerville

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