Jacobs Project Management Co. and H.J. Russell will manage approximately $700 million in construction spending in first five years.
Workshop will explain how a minority- or women-owned business can become a certified DBE firm.
The cost to design and build the facility, which includes community input, is estimated to be $6.9 million.
Detroit-based companies, along with women, minority and disadvantaged business enterprises, have been awarded nearly 30% of the construction and concurrent road work for the M-1 RAIL streetcar project.
Since her 2001 appointment as head of COMTO, she effectively led the national trade association in unprecedented growth — moving from a single focus of public transit to a focus of multi-modalism, now including aviation, port authorities and state departments of transportation.
Representatives from Daimler Buses North America, Motor Coach Industries, New Flyer Industries, Nova Bus, Prevost and the MTA provided the attendees with information on the types of parts, supplies and services needed as part of the bus manufacturing process.