The Sound Transit board on Thursday awarded a $159.8 million contract to Hoffman Construction Co. to build the U District light rail station finishes.
The contract includes constructing civil, structural and architectural finishes for the underground station that will have entrances on Brooklyn Avenue Northeast between Northeast 43rd and 45th streets.
The station is part of the $1.9 billion Northgate Link project, which extends light rail 4.3 miles from the University of Washington station at Husky…