Plans to finalize a couple major projects concerning Proximity Park are starting to come together. Yesterday, the City of Ottawa held a bid opening for the water tower to be constricted at Proximity Park. Bids ranged from just under $4 million, to a low bid by Maguire Iron Water Tower Experts, ut of Sioux City, Iowa for $3,414,100 . All the bids will be taken under consideration by the Ottawa City Commission.
Maguire Iron was founded in 1915 and has been a one family-owned business from the beginning. Their hallmark is painting, repairing, fabricating and constructing elevated water storage tanks for municipalities, rural water districts throughout the country, providing their services in 33 different states.