Streetscape Updates

There will be a community involvement meeting on Thursday, July 10th, from 4-6 pm at Town Hall. Withers Ravenel, Fred Smith Co., and the Town will all have representatives in attendance. 

Update From Carter Lovern, Project Manager for Fred Smith Co. as of 7/7/25:

This week we are continuing to proceed with retaining wall installation and fine grading for hardscapes. Last week the footings were poured for 2 of the 4 walls and the first half of the week you will see rebar tying and inspections in preparation for concrete pours on the walls themselves (this is scheduled for Wednesday at plant availability). From there, either Thursday or Friday, the masonry subcontractor is scheduled to begin installing the brick façade on the walls themselves while drainage pipes are installed within the walls. After curing, we will be able to begin backfilling the walls next week.

We will also be establishing dirt subgrade on Lassiter street which will include hauling off excess soils from the site in preparation for aggregate base course installation in this area next week.

Next week, we have our concrete subcontractor scheduled to begin pouring sidewalks back in front of businesses and installing the concrete base that is beneath the pavers. Bare with us, as this will be from “Pole to Pole” as the dry utility companies continue to remove the poles that will not remain in place. To be clear, there will be small portions of sidewalk that remain left out until the poles are removed. We think we can do a large portion of the site next week, but a second mobilization will be required form our concrete subcontractor the following week, and a third once we can get the curb and gutter tied in on the southern portion of the block once retaining walls are complete.

There is a 3 phase electrical service that remains to be converted. Once we have completed the small screen wall on Lassiter street, this can be accomplished. The meter base itself attaches to the wall. Our hope is to do this changeover sometime next week or the following. Once this is complete, it will allow Duke to remove their old poles, brightspeed and spectrum to transition to being overhead on the new side of the street, and their old poles removed as well.

The Dry utility work is tentative and each of the companies have their own storm and outages they have to take care of that interfere with us having them on site with us. As work progresses we will keep you updated.