In about four to six weeks, Tintle said, the building will be ready for use and will primarily serve as a storage space for the city’s equipment. The structure will be updated from its previous iteration, allowing for accessibility. It also includes a basement. It will encase about 3,700 feet of space for Public Works.

According to Nevada City City Engineer Bryan McAlister, the building previously served an a lumber barn.

“It’s been about 15 years since we’ve built another structure in there,” McAlister said. “We’re always doing improvement.”

“(The building) is prepared for a ramp, there will be a loading dock, and where the I-beam is there, that will accommodate a crane. And there’s a second level mezzanine and there is also a basement below,” said Tintle.

Construction on the project began around the first of the year, said Tintle, and has seen a few weather-related setbacks. Demolition on the existing structure had already been completed before MK & Sons—which, as the name implies is operated by Mark and his children—took over.

“There’s a contractual deadline on a job like this so we are allowed to take weather days,” said Tintle. “We probably had about 23 weather days—so about a working month of weather days.”

Tintle said he entered a competitive bid on the project, with a price tag of $1.2 million, most of which he said stems from insurance money collected after the original building suffered damage from a 2021 snow storm.

He’s glad, Tintle said, to keep the job local. He lives merely blocks away.

“With prevailing wage jobs, 90 percent of them go to out-of-town contractors,” Tintle said. “$1.2 million stayed here in town. The subcontractor who works here, all the suppliers are local. It was a huge deal in my world. It’s so important to me because it spans five times over.”