Trucks begin hauling dirt on 75th St. project
Trucks began hauling soil from the 75th Street extension in Willowbrook this week for what village officials consider to be a dirt-cheap price.
Willowbrook officials estimated the cost of moving 17,000 cubic yards of dirt at $614,000, according to village documents. But that was before officials found a developer, Hamilton Partners, who needed dirt for a golf course being built in Westchester.
The developer’s moving contractor, Earth Inc., made Willowbrook a deal too good to refuse, agreeing to remove all the dirt from the extension project for $218,400, or for much less than half of the village’s estimate. The only catch was that it had to start moving dirt this week.
Village Administrator Phil Modaff said Willowbrook’s savings on the project is not simple arithmetic because it involves federal funding for a percentage of the project. But the golf course project still saved Willowbrook a substantial amount of money in the six figures.
