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Columbia Falls awards bid for large street project

by CHRIS PETERSON
Hungry Horse News | February 15, 2026 12:00 AM

The Columbia Falls City Council has approved a contract with a local firm for the Gateway to Glacier Safety and Mobility Improvement Project. 

Nelcon Inc. of Columbia Falls was awarded a $9.4 million bid for the project, which was about $700,000 more than the engineer’s estimate and exceeds the $10 million federal RAISE grant, which pays for the bulk of the project, by $552,099. Some of the federal funds were previously used to pay for engineering and other preliminary work.

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