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Adams Street Connector

  • Adams Street Connector

  • Type

  • Infrastructure
  • Status

  • Under Construction
  • Budget

  • $450,000 (Regional Flexible Transportation Fund grant)
  • Dates

  • Redesign: Nov-Mar 2015

    Bid: March 17th, 2015

    Construction: May-June 2015

  • Contact:

  • Project Manager:
    Brad Albert
    Civil Engineer
    503-786-7609

  • Alerts and Updates

  • The majority of the underground work as well as the work in Main Street has been completed.  Wall footings will be formed and poured this week.

    The post office and Broken Arrow Archery will remain open and accessible during construction.  Additional parking has been provided on Main Street in front of the Post Office as well as further north towards Washington Street.  This parking will remain after construction has completed.

  • Project Details

  • PROJECT OVERVIEW
    The City of Milwaukie has led an ongoing planning effort for South Downtown dating to 2008 with the adoption of the South Downtown Concept Plan.  As part of the implementation of that plan, the City is working with a design team to remake Adams Street between Main Street and 21st Ave in the South Downtown. This section of Adams Street is the key connection between Main Street and the Milwaukie Main Street light rail station now under construction. City Council directed staff to move forward with the project during its October 2, 2012, Work Session Meeting.

    The Adams Street Connector is also part of the City’s adopted South Downtown Concept Plan, which envisions Milwaukie’s small south downtown area as a reinvigorated live/work district within an easy walk of the Willamette River, Kellogg Creek, downtown Milwaukie and every place outside Milwaukie via the MAX system. Once completed, the Adams Street Connector Project will link Milwaukie’s future downtown light rail station with Main Street and represent the first completed project of the South Downtown Concept Plan.

     

    The project is funded through Metro with $450,000 in regional flexible transportation funds. The City is currently redesigning a small portion of the project to increase hardscape area, reduce stormwater runoff, and reconfigure stormwater piping. The redesign effort is underway with assistance by Walker Macy Architecture and will continue through January 2015.  Construction contract has been awarded. Construction is scheduled to commence May 4th and expected to be completed by the end of June 2015.

     

    PROJECT SCHEDULE

    Fall 2012: Conceptual design
    Spring-Winter 2013: Construction plans and documents prepared
    Winter 2014-2015: Minor redesign and final construction documents
    May-June 2015: Construction of improvements, to be coordinated after public improvements being constructed by TriMet as part of the light rail project.