Construction Updates

This week, Streetscape crews installed conduit at Cabarrus Avenue and started rough grading the intersection. Meanwhile, infrastructure crews removed the roadway north of Cabarrus towards the Library and began the new sewer main installation. During the roadway removal, old trolley tracks were discovered just 2 ft. below the asphalt on Union Street! While most of […]

Downtown Streetscape crews continue to make progress in the Cabarrus Avenue intersection. Currently, they are installing stormwater across the intersection working north. We anticipate crews to complete this work by early next week then they will switch to sewer work at the intersection and work north towards the library. At this point, some fence movement […]

Downtown streetscape crews continue working hard on infrastructure work in the Cabarrus Avenue intersection. Water and sewer work is compelete in the intersection and crews have moved on to stormwater pipe installation. Sidewalk work continues south of Cabarrus Avenue with paver installation at the Courthouse Plaza connection and the first 8 Ft of sidewalk on […]

This week, Downtown Streetscape Crews installed 157 Ft of sidewalk from 30 Union Street S to the new Novi Lofts. The 16″ water main installation was also completed and backfilled through the Cabarrus Avenue intersection as well as 30 Ft of 8″ sewer main. Festoon poles at the Courthouse Plaza connection were poured and sidewalk […]

Downtown Streetscape crews continued installing the new water line through the intersection of Union Street and Cabarrus Avenue. In addition to water line work, crews set a new sewer manhole and are installing new sewer mains in the intersection. They also installed landscape drainage pipe, excavated for soil cells, poured foundations for two of the […]

This week, Downtown Streetscape crews poured 237 LF of new sidewalks on the east side of Union Street. Sidewalk crews also worked on installing heavy-duty reinforcement and formwork for the Courthouse Plaza connection. Early next week, that area will be poured. Infrastructure crews made progress in the Cabarrus Ave intersection as well. They carefully excavated […]

This week, Downtown Streetscape crews completed the conduit installation between Corban Ave and Cabarrus Ave. They also installed a line-stop to isolate the water in the Cabarrus Ave intersection so crews can begin removing existing water lines and installing the new lines. Our City Electric Systems crews installed temporary lighting to keep the Cabarrus Ave […]

This week, Downtown Streetscape Crews continued valve insertions on Union St N near Killarney Ave to isolate the existing water lines before installing the new 16″ water line through Cabarrus Ave. Sidewalk Crews continued grading and installing formwork for upcoming sidewalk pours. This will continue through next week with concrete pours planned for the following […]

The Downtown Streetscape crew’s primary focus this past week was isolating the existing water line at Cabarrus Ave and Union St. This is necessary before they can begin installing the new waterline through the intersection working towards Killarney Ave. This week, they completed installing additional valves on Cabarrus Ave W and Cabarrus Ave E (see […]