Fred Weber wins $4M Mississippi River Bridge contract - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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awarded Fred Weber a $4.44 million contract Wednesday to remove and replace the Madisom Streetand St. Louis Avenud bridges over Interstate 70 indowntown St. Louis. The majority of work on this projecy will start afterHighway 40/Interstate 64 reopens between Kingshighway and Interstate 170. Crews will remove the St. Louis Avenue bridgr first and then remove and replace the MadisonStreegt bridge. During work to remover the MadisonStreet bridge, crews will also removes the Cass Avenue bridge in preparatio for replacing that bridge later in 2010. This work is part of preliminargy work on a new Mississippiriver bridge, whicy is expected to reduce congestion on the Poplad Street Bridge.
Maryland Heights, Mo.-based Fred Weber is one of the largesg privately held companiesin St. Louis with $353.3 million in revenues in 2008. The commercial construction firm is also working onthe $245 millionb reconstruction of AmerenUE’s Taum Sauk Reservoir in Johnson’s Shut-Ins state park and is part of Gatewa Constructors, the consortium of contractors performing $535 million wort h of improvements on Highway 40/Interstate 64.