Brick Street Project Updates
- June 16th, 2010
Update! (5:00 P.M.) – The lights will be active tonight on 9th and Main.
Crews are digging a trench from the Court House to businesses on the south side of Main Street for telephone lines. There is a high level of machinery in use, limiting the sidewalks. Proceed with caution.
How many bricks will it take to finish the project? Some have guessed as high as 1.5 million, experts say that no more than 300,000 bricks will be used!
- June 15th, 2010- Updated
This Just In…
Sidewalk has been removed from the north side of Main Street. Removal of the surface layer of brick on Court Street is making progress.The Morning Report
The second layer of bricks has been removed from the 800 block of Main St.The bricks had been buried for over 100 years and as a result, began to crumble when exposed. The city decided to make use of those structurally unsound bricks to shore up the erosion along the river bank caused by repeated flooding.
The work will now shift to removing the existing curb and gutter along Main St. and removal of bricks on Court St.
- June 11th, 2010
A skid loader is being used to bring the bricks up and then the crew cleans and stacks them on pallets. Several pallets of bricks have already been filled. Even with yesterdays rain delay, a lot of progress has been made in removing the bricks.
Work to take down the street lights is continuing. They are removing the smaller lamp posts along the courthouse side this morning.
Parking Update: Crews are preparing to start saw cuts along the 900 block of Main– parking will be limited on this block during the process.
- Brick Street Renovation Project is underway!
June 10, 2010 The painstaking process of removing the bricks began this morning on Main St. and Court St. between Nile Kinnick Dr. and 9th St.
Pedestrian traffic is possible through this area, but it is a construction zone so please be careful.- Historic Ground Breaking Gallery
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There was a ground breaking ceremony to kick-off the 2010 Brick Street Rehabilitation project on Wednesday, June 9th.
The ceremony took place at the intersection of 9th Street and Main Street, on the corner of the Courthouse Square.
Speakers Mayor James Peters and historian Jan Price shared information about the significance of the project and history of the brick streets.
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Chad Bird
City Administrator
Adel, Iowa 50003
515-993-4525
cbird@adeliowa.org
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Project Photo Gallery
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The following companies were contracted to provide services during the Brick Street Renovation Project
McClure Engineering Engineers Manatts General Contractor and Concrete Paving Elder Corporation Earthwork, Pipe Hardscape Solutions Brick Installation Absolute Concrete Concrete American Fence Railing Breton Enterprises Electrical Quality Striping Inc., DBA DPLM Pavement Marking Quality Traffic Control Inc. Traffic Control Lenhart Plumbing Water Fountain Rothamel Turf Farms, Inc. Landscaping Soil-Tek Silt Fence Swanson Masonry Masonry
