News

Contractor is repaving streets this month

Balsam Drive is one of the streets Tar Heel Paving Co. will resurface this month.

By Lightning Reports, Published: October 7, 2022

Motorists will enjoy a smoother ride on sections of more than a dozen streets when a contractor completes repaving work this month.

When the city public works department opened bids on Aug. 17, Tarheel Paving & Asphalt Co. was the low bidder — by a lot — offering to do the work for $336,027. The next lowest bidder was $511,459, by Trace & Co., followed by $591,003 by JLS Co., and $655,853 by the Rogers Group. Because the city had budgeted $600,000 for repaving, administrators undertook a second informal bid and added $264,000 worth of repave more streets.

Streets to be repaved include:

• Balsam Road from Spartanburg Road to Greenville Highway, milling and repaving.
• Wildflower Lane from Underhill Road to dead end, repaving.
• Shadywood Lane from Balsam Road to Pineland Road, repaving.
• Pineland Road from Underhill Road to dead end, repaving.
• Lily Pond Road from Kanuga Road to West Allen Street, milling and repaving.
• Armstrong Avenue from West Lake Avenue to gravel road, repaving.
• West Allen Street from West Lake Avenue to Whitted Street, milling and repaving.
• Barnwell Street from Main Street to King Street, milling and repaving.
• Short Street from Kanuga Road to Willow Road, milling and repaving.
• Alley from Short Street to White Street, repaving.
• Upland Way from Jordan Street to dead end.
• Barnwell Street from Main Street to Washington Street.
• East Allen Street from King Street to Main Street.
• Edwards Alley from Allen Street to Second Avenue.
• Seventh Avenue East from the Mud Creek Bridge to Duncan Hill Road.
• Oklawaha Trail from Seventh Avenue to the Four Seasons Boulevard bridge.
• Victory Heir Street from Seventh Avenue East to dead end.
• Kay Thomas Drive from Victory Heir Street to dead end.
• Alley from Locust Street to Grove Street.