The City of
Tallahassee - Leon County Blueprint 2000 &
Beyond Intergovernmental Agency held a Groundbreaking
Ceremony for the first expansion project for Capital
Circle Southeast on Tuesday, May 3 at 9 a.m. The
event took place on Capital Circle Southeast,
north of Blair Stone Road, on the east side of
the roadway.
The Capital
Circle Southeast project will extend from just
south of Tram Road to Connie Drive and will widen
the existing two-lane undivided rural road to
a six-lane divided urban roadway. The 3.4-mile
project will include curb and gutter, sidewalk,
a meandering trail, bicycle lanes, significant
stormwater improvements, a substantially landscaped
median and landscaped borders. Construction is
expected to begin before the end of the month
and continue until October 2007. The project is
being designed and built by quality local firms,
with 21 % of the construction and 15.5 % of the
design to be done by local minority businesses.
This is a
great project for our community, funded by the
one-cent sales tax extension, voted on by the
citizens of Tallahassee-Leon County. It is a culmination
of a lot of hard work by the citizens, elected
officials, and staff. The total cost is $37 million,
which is staying in the community.
Blueprint
2000 Director Jim Davis, along with members of
the Intergovernmental Agency Board of Directors
from the City Commission, Mayor John Marks, and
Allen Katz, and from the County Commission, Cliff
Thaell, Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Agency,
Bob Rackleff, Ed DePuy, and Jane Sauls. Also,
Bob Henderson a member of the Citizens Advisory
Committee, Emory Mayfield and Chuck Roberts with
M, Inc./ C.W. Roberts, construction partners in
this project all participated in the dirt turning
Groundbreaking Ceremony for Tallahassee-Leon County’s
first horizontal design-build project. After the
dirt turning portion of the ceremony City Manager
Anita Favors, Bill Little, Emory Mayfield and
Chuck Roberts unveiled the two signs that will
be placed along the corridor.
Other attendees
included Laura Kelley, Executive Director of the
Florida Transportation Commission; Kevin Thibault,
Assistant Secretary for the Florida Department
of Transportation; Norm Lewis and Ron Fisher,
FAA; Delmas Barber, Florida A&M; and Mary
Chiles, from U.S. Senator Nelson’s office.
All guests were given Blueprint 2000 miniature
hardhats. |
