Renovations to the first two floors of the 104-year-old Levee Street Depot could be completed next week, the city’s project director said Wednesday.

“We should have final completion next week of the construction phase for the first and second floors,” said Vicksburg Buildings and Planning Director Victor Gray-Lewis, who is also the depot project director. “We passed substantial completion on Oct. 23.”

He said a walk-through inspection is planned for Monday or Tuesday, adding that the results will determine whether the city is satisfied with the work by contractor Kenneth R. Thompson Jr. before it is accepted.

Gray-Lewis did not have a final completion date for the entire project, which includes offices on the depot’s third floor, adding, “that will depend on several factors.”

“We have expanded the scope of the project,” he said, “and the city still has to install the wiring for the phones. The installation may have already begun.”

Gray-Lewis said the Board of Mayor and Aldermen still has to approve construction of the Vicksburg Main Street offices on the depot’s third floor, adding that might come when the board meets Monday and Thursday.

Plans call for three offices on the third floor, plus a conference room, which Main Street will share with the Vicksburg Convention and Visitors Bureau Board of Directors. The VCVB’s offices are on the depot’s second floor.

“This has been a hard project,” said North Ward Alderman Michael Mayfield. “We had the funding problems, and then we had the flood, which probably put us two to three months behind.”

Work on the depot restoration began in 2010 and was halted in the spring when the Mississippi River dumped 4 feet of water into the building as it reached record heights in Vicksburg, cresting at 57.1 feet on May 19, 14.1 feet above flood stage and nine-tenths of a foot above the Great Flood of 1927.

The depot became the backdrop for media coverage during the flood, and work resumed in June.

The flood forced two amendments to the original contract to repair flood damage. The board in September approved a $33,000 amendment to repair flood damage that was not covered by the contractor’s insurance. In August, it approved a $23,000 supplemental agreement with Kenneth R. Thompson Jr. to repair flood damage to the depot that was not covered under the original agreement.

City officials said the flood repair work would be filed with the Federal Emergency Management Agency for reimbursement.

Other changes included a sidewalk from the depot to the Corps of Engineers’ MV Mississippi IV, and the Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Center.

The board also approved a $1,000 amendment to include installing new ceilings in two rooms and reducing the number of display tracks from five to four for static train cars displays. That project was paid in part by a credit from the contractor for removing one set of tracks from the plan.