8th Street Construction Update, June 2006
06/12/06 • Posted in: Springfield by Joey Marchy 3 Comments »
Check out the 8th street construction photoset
The sidewalks on both sides of 8th street are gone. This is the only visible difference since my last update on the 8th Street construction. I have no doubt there is more going just beneath the surface, infrastructre and all that. The city sure hasn’t provided a timely update on the website devoted to citywide road and infrastructure improvements: The Better Jacksonville Plan.
You call this a progress report?
Moving on. As if the east side of 8th street wasn’t already depressing with it’s boarded up store fronts shopping cart pushing residents. While I was driving down 8th street Sunday afternoon, a sense of dread came over me. How long are the people going to have to live like this? With rain on the way, living on the eastside of Main Street is sure to suck for the next couple of months.
I wonder when I see the Better Jacksonville projects that have been completed or are moving full steam ahead in other parts of town exactly what is holding up the 8th St and Main St improvement projects…
I wonder the same thing every time I drive down hendricks avenue too. It seems like these guys take every other day off.
8th St. is still under construction . . . finishing antique light poles, bus stops, plantings, one more coat of asphalt and then painting the lines. A couple of buildings will come down. Pressure is on that drug-dealing labor pool to close or clean up. Stores will continue to open. The two liquor stores selling one can at a time are a problem. Perhaps that ordinence will help.
Main St. rebuilding has begun in small ways, and the builder is moving into the staging area on 7th St. as soon as the 8th St. builder moves out next month. Could be a couple of years project, but ooh la la when it is finished. I hear, at every turn, stores planning to build out 6 - 9 months prior to Main St. completion and, in the meantime, 4 new businesses recently opened on Main prior to digging up the pavement. It’s almost over.