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Update: Contractor Continuing Progress on I-275 Business Park Improvements 
Three months into the start of the $5.4 million I-275 Business Park Access Improvements Project, gas lines have been welded together and placed below ground. 

A road bed has been built. 

Catch basins and erosion control devices are in place. Even some seed and matting have been put down.

Looking north on Sept. 21 along the Blackstock Avenue extension, between May and Bernard avenues, pieces of a 4-inch gas line have been laid out, welded together and await placement.

Pictured above is the scene looking north on Sept. 21 along the Blackstock Avenue extension, between May and Bernard avenues. Pieces of a 4-inch gas line have been laid out, welded together and await placement.

Here (below) is what a nearby section of the new roadway looked like a week later. The gas line has been buried and backfilled:

On a nearby section of the new road, the gas line has been placed and backfilled.

The work by Jones Brothers contractor crews is part of a major overhaul of an underused commercial corridor. When completed in about a year, the improved connectivity and modern infrastructure will encourage new business investment.

Crews are building a 1,100-foot-long extension of Blackstock, connecting West Fifth Avenue and Bernard Avenue. A 1,600-foot-long section of Marion Street between Bernard and Baxter avenues is being improved, as is a 650-foot-long section of Baxter between I-275 and the railroad tracks by Second Creek.

Meanwhile, here is a photo taken in late September of a 4-inch gas line being placed at Fifth Avenue and the Blackstock extension:

A 4-inch gas line is being placed at Fifth Avenue and the Blackstock extension.
Posted by evreeland On 09 October, 2020 at 1:44 PM  

 
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