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Salazar visits Mesa Verde, praises future visitor's center
Mesa Verde National Park's new Visitor Center and Research Facility is not quite completed, but it already is drawing praise for its innovation while keeping down costs. “You live in one of the most beautiful places,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a small group of local dignitaries and federal lands employees Saturday morning in front of the new building. “This park is the crown jewel of history” among the nation's parks, he added.
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The Visitor Center and Research Facility originally was estimated to cost around $19 million, received a bid of about $12.1 million, and the final cost will be around $14.1 million, said Clifford Spencer, Mesa Verde National Park superintendent.
Funding came from the Obama administration's stimulus package for “shovel-ready” projects.
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Spencer said the project culminates about 90 years of requests from Mesa Verde superintendents for a new visitor center at the entrance to the park. He noted that the first such request was in the 1924 superintendent's report.
http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20120923/NEWS01/120929999/Salazar-visits-Mesa-Verde-praises-future-visitor's-center
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The Visitor Center and Research Facility originally was estimated to cost around $19 million, received a bid of about $12.1 million, and the final cost will be around $14.1 million, said Clifford Spencer, Mesa Verde National Park superintendent.
Funding came from the Obama administration's stimulus package for “shovel-ready” projects.
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Spencer said the project culminates about 90 years of requests from Mesa Verde superintendents for a new visitor center at the entrance to the park. He noted that the first such request was in the 1924 superintendent's report.
http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20120923/NEWS01/120929999/Salazar-visits-Mesa-Verde-praises-future-visitor's-center
Nice to see a positive stimulus spending story.
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