Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the closure of the westbound Washington Bridge, Gov. Dan McKee announced Tuesday that state officials have selected two finalists to compete for the contract to build a replacement bridge.

One finalist is a joint venture between American Bridge Co. of Pennsylvania and MLJ Contracting Corp. of New York. American Bridge is the fifth-largest bridge builder in the country and helped build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay suspension bridge, while MLJ has worked on both the Brooklyn Bridge restoration and the Port Authority command center, according to the governor’s office.

The other finalist is Walsh Construction of Chicago. Walsh is the largest bridge builder in the world, according to the governor’s office, and has worked on projects including the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge — also known as the “Q bridge” — on I-95 in New Haven.

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