County may butt heads with Boyer Company

(Park Record) Summit County Councilwoman Sally Elliott says The Boyer Company is backpedaling on an agreement to build two roads at Kimball Junction.

"I'm really annoyed at that because they did not do what they said they were going to do," Elliott said at a County Council meeting at Kimball Junction Aug. 19. "They have violated the agreement."

The main access into a research park The Boyer Company is building near Walmart is a spine road that will connect to the west side of State Road 224. Summit County had plans in 2010 to build a road west of S.R. 224 that would connect the roundabout on Landmark Drive with Olympic Parkway.

Last spring, The Boyer Company agreed to build both roads this year to accelerate construction of the Landmark Drive extension, which Boyer needs for the research park.

"We're doing this as a cost savings," said Brian Bellamy, the interim Summit County manager. "Hopefully, with a larger project, we'll both save money. Instead of making two smaller projects, we could get some economies of scale."

But now Boyer has asked the county to fund "extras," which weren't part of the original agreement, Bellamy explained in a telephone interview Tuesday.

"They have violated my sense of fairness," Elliott said.

According to Bellamy, The Boyer Company hopes to charge Summit County roughly $40,000 for the "administration costs" of constructing the Landmark extension.

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