Now that Windsor City Council has approved the site plan for the new city hall, it'll put a request for proposals out as soon as possible.
"Council has made a number of approvals so at this point of the game we're just getting ready to issue the tenders, and then we'll go through, we'll look at those submissions," says Mayor Drew Dilkens.
The project is expected to cost about $43-million, and Dilkens is confident the tenders will be close to what the city has budgeted.
"We've hired a cost consultant," he says. "We've had someone working on our side with all of the things that we've been adding to city hall. They've been costing those out as we move along so we feel very confident that we're close to the amount that will come back in the tender but you never really know until you open those envelopes."
As for whether a local company will get the honours of building the new centre of municipal government, Dilkens says there's a chance, but it's not guaranteed.
"There's some locally, and there's some outside of the city," he says.
Construction is expected to start this fall and be complete in 2018.
