So things are getting interesting over at the Public Press.

Right on the heels of completing their three-month City Budget Watchdog project, the nonprofit news startup is partnering with Dave Eggers' McSweeney's Quarterly Concern to investigate the multi-billion-dollar retrofit of the Bay Bridge.

"Our reporters have been digging up documents for close to two months on the massive construction project, one of the most challenging, costly and complex bridge projects in U.S. history, and have found some surprising new facts about how and why the costs, currently projected at $6.3 billion, continue to rise," Public Press chief Michael Stoll writes on the organization's blog.

The story will appear in the next issue of McSweeney's, which Stoll says, will be published as a print newspaper focused on San Francisco. McSweeney's will also match any donations made to the project via Spot.us, dollar-for-dollar, up to $5,000. The Public Press estimates the cost of the project at $10,000.

The project has some heavy hitters working on it: two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Bob Porterfield; former San Jose Mercury News business reporter Elise Ackerman; former San Francisco Chronicle local news editor Richard Pestorich; and former San Jose Mercury News assistant foreign editor, Michael Winter. Also on the team: Patricia Decker, a Public Press reporter with a master's degree in structural engineering.