MARSHALL — As construction at the new Marshall Aquatic Center makes progress, the city of Marshall is also making future plans to demolish the old Aquatic Center near Legion Field Park. This week, the Marshall City Council awarded a $150,000 bid to Rogge Excavating, of Ghent, for the demolition.

“This would remove basically all the pools and structures and everything kind of around the pools, but keep the building in place,” said Marshall Parks and Recreation Superintendent Preston Stensrud. The pool basins and manholes at the old Aquatic Center would be removed and then filled in to grade.

Stensrud said the city could potentially keep the Aquatic Center’s main building to convert into additional storage space. “We’re still evaluating, and we have some initial pricing,” he said.

The city received bids for the Aquatic Center demolition on June 12. Four bids were received, with Rogge Excavating coming in as the lowest bidder at $150,000. The estimated total project cost, with a 5% contingency allowance and a 16% engineering and administrative cost added in, came to $182,700.

“We kind of have a $300,000 placeholder as part of the budget line for demolition,” Stensrud said.

Three of the four bids came in at less than $300,000.

Council members voted to award the bid to Rogge Excavating.

Stensrud said the demolition bid coming in under budget was something that was positive for the Aquatic Center project as a whole. It could mean more funding would be available for other parts of the project.

In the meantime, Stensrud said city staff were also looking at potential concepts for what parks and recreation features could be built in the Aquatic Center space.