Thursday, March 24, 2005

Ring Road update

If you're wondering what's up with the following projects, we checked with the city today, and here's the bird's-eye lowdown:

* Landscaping at Old Woodward and Oakland, on the east side of Old Woodward. Michael Dul-designed streetscape was approved some time back by the BCC. Will be bid this spring, with construction in mid- to late-summer 2005.

* Conversion of the Ring Road curve at Willits and Chester from a pedestrian-terrifying racetrack to a city street corner: Project is tied to resurfacing of entire stretch of Willits between Chester and Old Woodward, said resurfacing to await completion of the new Burton-Katzman building, slated for early 2007. Likely contruction: summer 2007.