State, Contractor to Choose Among Three Suitors for Purple Line Construction Work

After losing its prime subcontractor in a dispute over cost-overruns, the consortium building the Purple Line is one step closer to finding a replacement. Five construction companies expressed interest in picking up where Purple Line Transit Constructors left off when it quit the light rail project in September. Purple Line Transit Partners, the Riverdale-based consortium responsible for the project, has deemed three of them qualified to submit a formal bid.