City Projects

UPDATE: As of 03/29, SE 12th will also be closed while SE 8th will be opened as the only access to Eastern within the project area.
UPDATE:  As of 02/06, traffic will be shifted to the current southbound lanes and will be reduced to one lane in each direction. Access to side roads and businesses along this corridor will remain open during construction which is expected to be complete the first quarter of 2024.
Beginning November 2022, Eastern Ave. project between SE 19th to SE 4th will begin which includes widening, resurfacing, landscaping, and sidewalk/trail. Signals will be upgraded to radar detection at Eastern/SE 19th and Eastern/SE 4th. Eastern Ave. will remain open to traffic during this construction.

Additional project on Eastern from SE 4th to NE 9th, where it will tie into the NE 12th street project, is forthcoming. 

Expansion Project will commence the beginning of 2023 with expected completion in 14 months.

New Additions include:

• Two Activity Rooms
• Two Group Exercise Rooms
• Small Entry
• Restrooms

Fitness Floor Expansion

• Group Exercise rooms on second floor will expand to allow more free-weight and cardio exercise equipment.

Child Watch Expansion

• Child Watch will expand into the Activity Room and accommodate an additional 25 children.

In November of 2020, voters approved extending the existing ¼ cent sales tax for the purposes of capital improvements for the acquisition, construction, equipping, and/or remodeling existing Parks and Rec facilities and the Public Works facilities; to become effective April 1, 2021 and terminate March 31, 2025 (4 years).

Turner Ave widening and reconstruction project began April 15th of 2022 with the improvements to the drainage system and the addition of a concrete box structure. Turner Ave road work will consist of a new concrete street section with bike lanes in each direction and sidewalks on each side of the street. This project also includes water and sewer improvements which have already been completed. This project must take place in order to provide adequate detour options once 4th Street closes for the underpass construction.

For more information about the project: 4th St Railroad Underpass Project

Update: One lane of Nottingham Way is now open. 
West side is complete and the east side construction is expected to be completed by the end of May 2023.

UPDATE 09/30, Beginning 10/03, traffic from the Broadmoore Heights Add. will need to come and go from the South direction only. Traffic North of the Broadmoore Heights Add. to SE 19th Street will be closed to thru traffic. 

S. Bryant Ave. will be reconstructed between SE 19^th and SE 34^th.  Milling of the surface is scheduled to begin on August 17, then stabilization and 8” of asphalt will occur via Cleveland County crews.  There will be 200’ of concrete poured on the east/west/south legs of the intersection at SE 19^th.

The project will be completed ½ mile at a time, beginning with the south leg and extending up to the entrance to the new Broadmoore Estates. The road will be closed to thru traffic, see a change in traffic above.

The expected completion of the project is 90 days from August 17, weather permitting. 

Voted on in 2021, visit  2021 GO Bond Election for progress updates. Currently under construction just south of the 34th street bridge; east of I-35.

In design phase currently with expected start in FY2023.

In the final months of a year-long construction project, the bulk of construction for the SE lift station is expected to be completed by late summer of 2022. A separate project installing a gravity flow sewer line to transfer wastewater from the old 34th St. lift station to the new SE lift station. This should be completed by end of 2023.

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Total Costs

S. Broadway (19th to Willow Pine, 1.05 miles) will see widening from 2/3 lanes to 4/5 lanes with turn lanes. Eastern (19th to Broadway, 0.41 miles) will see widening from 2 lanes to 4 lanes with turn lanes.