NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Kansas State Fair General Manager Bryan Schulz updated Hutch Post on the progress of repairs and construction at the Bison Arena.
"The committee met with the architects last week," Schulz said. "We are now looking at phase two, which will start the interior of the building. That will go out, probably in the next month to six weeks. That will do probably half of the floor on the east side, restrooms, the possibility of the meeting rooms, the air handling units and all of the life safes that will go into that."
Work will be happening on that building soon on the outside.
"They've already started on the outside of the building," Schulz said. "They've done a lot of the tuckpointing already. They will start Monday with all the windows. Then they will start on the roof and the doors. By next August, the whole outside of the building and some of the inside work will be completed with phase one."
It depends on how quickly the inside bids come back how quickly some of that space could be used.