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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers is returning to Bakersfield June 23 for another unreserved public auction of industrial and construction equipment.
The auction starts at 8 a.m. at 20638 Taft Highway. It is expected to feature at least 2,900 items, including a large number of late-model, low-hour...
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Q: What’s being built or fixed at the southwest corner of Panama Lane & Gosford? There is lots of activity going on there with road construction vehicles and earth movers. Thanks.
— Andrea Sanchez
A: The Stine Canal is being moved underground to accommodate future commercial...
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Q: Castle & Cooke’s new building is nearing completion at River Walk and they have begun the dirt moving for the new Target.
They have also begun pipe laying on new construction to the east of the Castle & Cooke building: What is that going to be?
Also, they have cleared...
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We reported last week in The Californian that construction work on a planned Target store at Valley Plaza Mall has come to a screeching halt, sparking demands from several contractors for millions of dollars for work that has gone unpaid.
The $7.8 million project was set to replace the...
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A Bakersfield man working on a pipeline in Paso Robles was killed in a construction accident on Thursday evening.
Jacob Gaines, 24, died when an excavator hit a water line and submerged him and another man who were working in a trench at the time, San Luis Obispo Deputy Coroner Steve Crawford...
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Q: Maybe you can answer one question for me. I’ve been going to the 24 hour fitness at 3400 Bernard St. for years. Across the street from it (south side) is a big eye sore, it’s a big, boarded up building, been set on fire years ago. I was wondering when the city is going to do...
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TRIP hosted an open house about the 24th Street project tonight. It was considerably calmer than the the 58-to-Westside Parkway one a few weeks ago.
There are three segments to this project:
There's the Oak and 24th intersection. With so much traffic there turning, it's a challenge, TRIP...
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The number of building permits pulled in the Bakersfield metropolitan area continues to be low, according to a recent report prepared by Howdy Miller, the director of commercial marketing for Ticor Title in Bakersfield.
According to Miller, 479 residential buliding permits were taken out between...
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Efforts are afoot to retrain workers laid off from residential construction. (In case you haven't noticed that the pace of new home construction has slowed.)
The state's Labor and Workforce Development’s Employment Development Department is looking for formal proposals.
It's being...
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The governor is spending $10.5 million for training for construction workers and others who have been laid off because of the downturn in the housing market.
“The housing slump has put many skilled Californians out of work – such as carpenters, steel workers and cement...
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So I was getting ready to put together something for this week and got stumped. I'd love to get into putting together some very simple "how-to" posts, but most of them require pictures and frankly, with the sheetrock going up on the place I'm working on now, I don't really have a...
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