The last 2.3 miles of the Foothill Gold Line just got a builder lined up. The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority awarded the construction manager contract for the LA Metro A Line extension to Claremont to SSH Joint Venture, a team of Skanska USA Civil West, Stacy and Witbeck, and Herzog Contracting. The board approved it unanimously in May.
What the LA Metro A Line contract covers
The dollar figure on the award is modest, $6.3 million, because this is a construction manager / general contractor deal, not the build itself. It opens an 18-month preconstruction phase. During that stretch SSH supports the design, runs constructability reviews, prices the work, handles value engineering, and coordinates with the freight railroad and utilities that share the corridor. Once design hits 85%, the JV gets first crack at the construction contract, provided it can land on a price the authority will accept by fall 2027.
It’s a delivery model that’s become standard on transit jobs for a reason. Bring the contractor in early, catch the expensive surprises on paper instead of in the field.
Closing a line decades in the making
This segment runs from Pomona to Claremont, extending the light-rail line that already reached Pomona in the earlier Glendora-to-Pomona phase. Major construction is expected to begin in late 2027 and take roughly four years. The CMGC structure mirrors how owners are buying other big transit work, the same early-contractor approach behind projects like Brightline West across Southern California.
For a corridor that’s been inching east one funding cycle at a time, naming a builder is the unglamorous step that makes the rest real.