Contractor tapped for $40 million Salem Civic Center retrofit project

The city of Salem is moving ahead with an overhaul of its Civic Center which will displace 166 employees for over a year starting next summer.

Howard S. Wright, a Portland-based contractor was tapped to do the nearly $40 million Salem Civic Center seismic retrofit project, the company announced this week. The firm previously worked on two other major city builds: the retrofit of the Salem Public Library, completed in 2021, and the public works…