Franklin county opens bids for Armory warming kitchen

            County commissioners this week opened bids from companies that want to provide the equipment for a warming kitchen at the Fort Coombs Armory in Apalachicola.

Three companies offered bids –they ranged from about 21 thousand dollars to a little over 23 thousand dollars.

The winning bid will be announced later this month.           

The warming kitchen is part of a much larger renovation project at the Armory designed to make the armory a convention center and a destination for private events like weddings.

Over the past few years the county has installed a central heating, ventilation and air conditioning in the historic building.

There are also new handicapped accessible restrooms and many of the original windows have been repaired.

The armory can be rented for private events for 250 dollars a day or 600 dollars for a weekend from Friday through Sunday plus a refundable 150 dollar key and cleanup deposit.

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