Get ready: Huge Rombach project begins next week
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WILMINGTON – The long-anticipated improvements along the Rombach Avenue corridor will be underway next week, with lane closures beginning the evening of Thursday, June 3, the City of Wilmington announced.
The Rombach Avenue Improvements Project is nearly three miles long. The project begins at the intersection of Fife Avenue and Rombach Avenue and terminates at the eastern corporation limit at Starbuck Road. Improvements to East Side Drive are part of the project as well.
The project was originally slated for last year, but COVID-19 resulted in its postponement to 2021.
The construction is planned in multiple phases. The first phase of the project includes water main construction, minor storm sewer repairs, construction of a shared-use path, pavement repair, improvements to the turn radius at Lowe’s Drive, loon (traffic turnaround) construction at the intersection of Progress Way, and signal work.
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City will pay over $1.8M of Rombach work; hope is for access to American Rescue Plan Act funds
By John Hamilton - jhamilton@wnewsj.com
WILMINGTON Despite much frustration, Wilmington City Council agreed the city will pay over $1.8 million of the huge upcoming Rombach Avenue project.
At a special council meeting on Tuesday night, Safety/Service Director Brian Shidaker informed council he received an estimate and bids for the massive Rombach Avenue project.
The final estimate from the Ohio Department of Transportation was that the project would cost “shy of $7.2 million.”
However, the lowest bid the city received from contractors was over $9 million, much higher than what the city had budgeted for.
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Paving the way: ‘21 a busy one for Wilmington street projects, including Rombach work
By John Hamilton - jhamilton@wnewsj.com
Wilmington officials along with consultants and contractors walk through Regal Drive, one of the many streets where they plan on doing repairs for their massive street project for the year.
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This document lists the progress of City of Wilmington projects from late 2020 through 2021 and beyond.
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From left, Mayor John Stanforth, Fillmore Construction Operations Manager Fred Cox, and Streets Superintendent Jerry Runk inspect Regal Drive during a walkthrough on all the streets that will be repaired in the city’s 2021 improvement project.