Bids are due Jan. 18 for the $9.2 million Ames Intermodal Facility, which will be located south of Lincoln Way at the intersection of Hayward Avenue and Chamberlain Street.

Construction is proposed to begin in early March.

The facility is to be completed by June 2012 and will include 385 parking spaces, 292 structure spaces and 93 surface spaces. 

The Federal Transit Administration is overseeing the grants issued for the project, which was just awarded an additional $12.5 million as a part of the TIGER 1, Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, grant program. 

Roles of the city of Ames, Iowa State and CyRide are still being discussed.

Two goals for the project are to help provide parking for the Campustown redevelopment project and to develop a hub of transportation activity for Heartland Senior Services, Jefferson Lines, Burlington Trailways and Executive Express, which will provide nine trips per day from Ames to the Des Moines International Airport.