{"id":284044,"date":"2026-05-08T06:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284044\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T06:51:16","slug":"friendswood-awards-8-6m-contract-for-blackhawk-boulevard-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284044\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendswood awards $8.6M contract for Blackhawk Boulevard improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFriendswood City Council voted unanimously at its <a href=\"https:\/\/friendswoodtx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/2136\/files\/attachment\/10674\u00a0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 4 meeting<\/a> to award an $8.6 million contract to Houston-based Reytec Construction Resources for the Blackhawk Boulevard Reconstruction Phase II-C Project.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s second phase includes full roadway reconstruction, storm sewer improvements, waterline installation and associated infrastructure upgrades, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Funding the project<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/pearland-friendswood\/transportation\/2023\/01\/19\/construction-onc\u00a0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County Precinct 2 Partnership Project<\/a>, streets improvement fund, water and sewer working capital and water and sewer bonds will fund the project.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline<\/p>\n<p>The contractor has roughly 16 months to complete the project, according to agenda documents.<\/p>\n<p>Zooming out<\/p>\n<p>Phase II-C is the newest portion of the second phase of the years-long project to reconstruct portions of Blackhawk Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Huffman-based Triple B Services abandoned the Blackhawk Boulevard Reconstruction Phase II-B project in May 2023, prompting Friendswood to award the contract for Phase II-B to Pearland-based Westbrook Contractors, according to previous <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/pearland-friendswood-manvel\/government\/2025\/08\/08\/friendswood-secures-nearly-426k-bond-settlement-to-finish-blackhawk-boulevard-improvements\/\u00a0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> by Community Impact.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friendswood City Council voted unanimously at its May 4 meeting to award an $8.6 million contract to Houston-based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[90091,50591,50592,104431,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-284044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-city-council-friendswood","tag-friendswood-city-council","tag-friendswood-government","tag-friendswood-projects","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}