Road Closing, Road Opens, Road Repairs, and East of Africa Update
Heatherdown To Close Next Week
Heatherdown Road from Club Drive to the entrance of the Aloft Hotel will close on Monday for two weeks to rebuild the roadway. Traffic intending to go north on State Street will be redirected to Schrock Road, then to State Street.
Heatherdown traffic intending to go south on State will be routed onto Club Drive to State. Traffic needing to travel westbound on Heatherdown would be able to use Club Drive as an alternative from southbound State Street. Club Drive is a right-in, right-out only road.
Closing Heatherdown for two weeks instead of a one-way closure with flaggers managing traffic flow was chosen after consulting with businesses on the street, who indicated they would prefer the faster method of closing the entire section of the street rather than the slower, one-lane-always-open method that would have taken about 30 days.
Birmingham Road Reopens
Birmingham Road has a new normal after it was rebuilt from the ground up, replacing a 1950s-era roadway that had become cracked and broken.
The rebuild involved removing the curbs and gutters, as well as the entire old roadway. Crews fortified the soil with concrete, laid down a thick layer of compressed gravel, and applied several layers of asphalt. The final layers of asphalt were installed last week.
Liberty Lane’s New Driveways
Contractors are replacing driveways along a section of Liberty Lane where the roadway will be rebuilt entirely from the ground up, similar to the just-completed project on Birmingham Road.
The first phase, now complete, was removing and rebuilding curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and damaged driveways.
The project is on schedule and is expected to be completed by the end of June.
East of Africa Landscape Changes
Earthmovers, bulldozers, and dump trucks have radically altered the landscape in East of Africa as the contractors prepare the land for roadways, underground utilities, and developers.
Most notable are three excavations for new ponds, replacing the existing pond, which was less than 1,000 feet from the Sharp Home.
One section of the new roadway through the 88 acres will connect to the Central Ohio Primary Care entrance about 100 feet from the Sharp Home. The contractor has leveled the entrance, cutting a path through the elevation that once held the Sharp family barn. The land, usually green with hay this time of year, is now barren, with heavy equipment raising dust clouds and leaving tire and tread tracks on the cleared surface.
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