The City of Elyria
received fantastic news this afternoon!
The Ohio Turnpike Commission gave the final approval to Elyria’s Route
57/49th St. Bridge Reconfiguration project slated to begin in 2014
and be completed in 2016. The $28
million infrastructure project will remedy a high crash zone by modifying the
existing I-90/SR 57 interchange, incorporating a diamond interchange with
traffic signals at ramp intersections that will move 620 feet north, removing
the 49th Street Bridge overpass by Midway Mall and the ramps to
Griswold Road and Midway Mall Boulevard. It will also widen SR 57 to six lanes
between the Ohio Turnpike and I-90, widen Midway Mall Boulevard to four lanes
and a left turn lane, bring Griswold Road to current design standards and add
sidewalks and relocate the existing frontage roads. Moreover, there are a number of anticipated
job creation and long-term economic benefits to the project as well. Here are the details:
Project Cost/City
Investment:
- Total anticipated cost: $28 million
- City of Elyria’s investment: $1,880,369
Vital to Safety and Helpful to Our Economic
Future
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Improvements to safety to remedy high crash zone
- Improved access/barrier removal between I-90 and the Turnpike
- Improved access to Midway Mall, local hotels, restaurants and strip retail areas
- Improved access to industrial park
- Improves the appears and function of a commercially viable area as demonstrated by new or improved businesses in the past three years: McDonald’s, Olive Garden, Verizon, Chipolte, Hampton Inn and others
- Aesthetic improvement to City and Mall entrance will retain and expand retail and other development
- Opens the westside of Elyria to future development of 140 acres
- Local and regional employment opportunities in construction trades
- Sales increases to local and in-region construction firms
- Increase in City of Elyria tax base from construction
- Serves as a catalyst for the Mall area Redevelopment Plan
Patronize Two New Businesses: Cascade Café and
Elyria Recycling
Two new Elyria
businesses are celebrating this week with the grand opening of Cascade Café on
Broad Street in downtown Elyria and the Re-opening of Elyria Recycling, a
subsidiary of PSC Metals, Inc. Please
join me in patronizing these hometown establishments. I enjoyed lunch today at
the Cascade Café where the Roig family and staff treated me like their family.
The BLT was delicious and soon they will be offering take-out orders. If their
opening day on Saturday was any indication with over 200 patrons, the Cascade
Café is bound for success! Have an old
car, pop cans, or metal of just about any kind?
You can turn it into cash at Elyria Recycling on Infirmary Road. Their new state-of-the-art facility includes
equipment and technology to reinforce safety, efficiency and make sure that the
metals coming into the facility are done so legally; good news for all of us
law-abiding citizens.
9/11
Candlelight Remembrance Ceremony Wednesday
This Wednesday evening September 11, please join
organizers Bobbie Sears and Heather Sorg for the third annual 9/11 Candlelight
Remembrance Ceremony from 6:00 – 8:30pm on Ely Square. The rain date is Friday September 13th. Bring school supplies for donation to the Lorain County Boys and
Girls Club. 