PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 22, 2009

$8 MILLION MAYWOOD FIFTH AVENUE

IMPROVEMENT PROJECT MOSTLY COMPLETED

The massive face-lift of Fifth Avenue, an $8,106,695 improvement project which began last spring, has been mostly completed.  The construction project, which will dramatically improve Maywood’s major business hub, will be done completely by next June.
 
Fifth Avenue improvements, paid for by a combination of Illinois Department of Transportation grant dollars and monies from the St. Charles and Madison TIFs, will rejuvenate 5th Avenue from Quincy Street to Lake Street. 
 
Five major areas of improvement include:

• All new utility work including installing storm sewers and drainage structures, a new 12 inch water main and water services within the right-of-way, new Nicor gas mains, and new AT&T lines

• Replacement of curbs and gutters on Fifth Avenue except for intersections north of Randolph on the east side of the road

• First lift of asphalt placed with all lanes open for traffic

• Partial completion of streetlight work with the balance to be done by early January

• Traffic signal improvements to be completed this winter at Main, St. Charles Road, Washington Boulevard and Madison Street

“We appreciate the patience of our residents and business owners during the extensive Fifth Avenue improvement work,” Mayor Henderson Yarbrough explained.  “We can all see now that our major commercial avenue has been dramatically improved and will be the precursor of new commercial development on Fifth Avenue.”

Work will resume on Fifth Avenue in late March, 2010.