Construction of the new, longhouse-inspired Tlingit Park pavilion began June 19. Design and construction of the project, which comes to roughly $300,000, is funded by a U.S. National Park Service Land and Water Conservation Fund grant.
“We’re fifty percent excavated and will begin pouring concrete next week,” Chilkat Custom Construction owner Carlos Jimenez said in an interview Tuesday.
Earlier this year, a selection committee chose Chilkat Custom Construction from a pool of two applicants to…

