Fred Weber wins $4M Mississippi River Bridge contract - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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awarded Fred Weber a $4.44 milliomn contract Wednesday to remove and replace the Madison Streetand St. Louids Avenue bridges over Interstate 70 indowntown St. Louis. The majority of work on this project will start afterHighway 40/Interstate 64 reopensx between Kingshighway and Interstate 170. Crews will remove the St. Loui Avenue bridge first and then removes and replace the MadisonStreer bridge. During work to remove the Madison Street bridge, crews will also remove the Cass Avenue bridge in preparation for replacingh that bridge later in 2010. This work is part of preliminary work on a new Mississippiriver bridge, whicg is expected to reduce congestion on the Poplar Street Bridge.
Maryland Heights, Mo.-based Fred Webedr is one of the largest privatelhy held companiesin St. Louis with $353.23 million in revenue in 2008. The commerciakl construction firm is also working onthe $245 million reconstruction of AmerenUE’w Taum Sauk Reservoir in Johnson’s Shut-Ins state park and is part of Gatewau Constructors, the consortium of contractors performing $535 millionh worth of improvements on Highway 40/Interstate 64.