By Halloween, the Capital Pointe hole should only be a memory.

The City of Regina announced Monday it has awarded CBS Contracting Inc. with the contract to backfill the crater at 1971 Albert St.

According to a report from the city, in addition to backfilling the excavation, there are plans to repair a storm main on Victoria Avenue, along with the road and sidewalks adjacent to it. When the work is done, the site will be fenced off and finished with an asphalt surface.

The work is forecast to cost $2,601,819 (excluding taxes) and a contingency of $390,272 for a total of $2,992,091, which will be added to the property tax roll of that parcel of land.

Construction, which at times may be 24 hours a day, will start next month and is expected to take until October to complete.

Capital Pointe was a nearly decade-long project that was slated to be a 27-storey hotel and condo building at the site of the old Plains Hotel. It would have featured a five-level underground parkade.

The lot sat empty between 2011 and 2015 when excavators finally began to dig a hole for the foundation.

After facing seemingly endless delays since then, last spring, the city ordered the owner to fill the hole. When they failed to comply, the city became authorized under the Uniform Building and Accessibility Standards Act to do the work instead.