After more than a year of construction, the City’s Fassnight Creek Stormwater Improvement Project at the Springfield Art Museum is complete and Brookside Drive reopened to through traffic. “We’re excited to finish this project and thankful to the contractor, Art Museum and to the neighborhood for working with us throughout…
Author: Kristen Milam, Public Information, for SGFNN
After two years of community-wide engagement, stakeholder and partner agency coordination and engineering design, construction of roadway improvements along the Grant Avenue Parkway began in May. The City hosted a construction kickoff ceremony at Parkview High School on May 19 with multiple partner agencies, project team members, neighborhood residents…
Seven neighborhood improvement projects have been completed and more are underway in the first round of 2019-2024 Neighborhood Works improvement project funding. A second project application round is expected to take place in fall 2022 to allocate approximately $426,000 in remaining program funds. First launched in 2016 and funded through…
As part of the City’s Major Roadway Resurfacing Project, significant portions of National Avenue and Battlefield Road began being repaved starting in May. Motorists should expect delays along these roadways through July and may want to consider alternate routes until the work is complete. Approved by voters in 2019, the…
A $4.7 million project to reconstruct Division Street between National and Glenstone avenues began in June. Approved by voters in the 2019 City’s ¼-cent Capital Sales Tax renewal, the project includes the complete rebuilding of Division Street including new pavement, curb and gutter as well as stormwater drainage improvements. A…
In an effort to decrease speeding and cut-through traffic in neighborhoods, the City’s Department of Public Works will launch a temporary traffic calming pilot program in the Greater Parkcrest Neighborhood by the end of April. Traffic calming is a traffic engineering method designed to slow traffic, typically by using either…
The City of Springfield has engaged planning consultants PGAV to help identify the areas along the Grant Avenue Parkway corridor (Grant Avenue between Sunshine and College streets) that qualify for economic development and neighborhood revitalization tools. The study area encompasses Grant Avenue between Catalpa Street to the south and Olive…
The City’s Fassnight Creek Stormwater Improvement Project at the Springfield Art Museum is expected to wrap up this spring, while two additional art museum master plan-related projects will continue to take shape this spring and into the summer. Public Works stormwater engineer and project manager Kirkland Preston reports that many…
The City is finalizing the process to select a contractor for the reconstruction of Division Street between National Avenue and Glenstone Avenue. Construction is anticipated to begin this summer and last about a year. The project includes the complete rebuilding of Division Street including new pavement, curb and gutter as…
Five neighborhood improvement projects have been completed and more are underway in the 2019-2024 round of Neighborhood Works improvement project funding. First launched in 2016 and funded through the 1/4-cent Capital Improvement Sales Tax, Neighborhood Works is intended to fund small-scale capital improvements within officially registered neighborhoods. The program gives…