City Center Developer Making Corrections Along Manassas Drive

The roadwork on Manassas Drive near the Manassas Park City Hall is being done by Clark Realty, the company that owns City Center.

 Clark Realty through Park Center LLC the company responsible for the development of City Center, has contracted a concrete company to replace the curbs on Manassas Drive near City Center,  Manassas Park Department of Public Works Director James “Jay” Johnson Jr. said.

 The company is doing the work as part of its performance bond.

 When any entity does construction they get a performance bond which guarantees the work will be finished, Johnson said.

 Performance bond time periods vary by company and by agreement conditions, but Park Center’s bond will be released after one year, Johnson said.

 The company is making some corrections because there were some defects in the original work that was done.

 These corrections will be inspected by the Manassas Park Department of Public Works, he said.

 After one year, the bond will be released and a maintenance bond will be implemented. The maintenance bond is put in place to make sure the  company takes care of any defects that should appear.

 Extensive work is being done all around the area, Johnson said.

 The contractor has been very aggressive in its work and the corrections are expected to be done in about a month, Johnson said.

 The work was originally expected to be completed in two to three weeks, but the intense heat will most likely cause the project to take longer, he said.  

 Work on Manassas Drive near the police department was being done this month by public works as part of the city’s leak detection program.

 The city is losing some 390 gallons of water a minute and they don’t know where the “unaccounted for” water is escaping from, or where exactly it’s going, Johnson said during the public works enterprise budget presentation in April.

 He uses the term, “unaccounted for" because it can’t conclusively be said that the water is leaking out of the pipes, he said.

 In the last four years, the city has lost some $896,000 as a result of the missing water and has embarked on a campaign to get to the bottom of the lost.