Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Five-month construction project to begin Monday on Front Street

COMMON DESK (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)
Common Desk is one of many businesses along north Front Street in downtown Wilmington affected by the North Front Streetscape Project starting Monday. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)

WILMINGTON — After months of delay, the City of Wilmington will finally break ground on its North Front Streetscape project Monday. The work will affect the 200 and 300 blocks of Front Street.

Work will begin along Front between Chestnut and Grace streets, sectioned off for completion in two weeks. Crews will close half the intersection at Grace Street and the entire 200 block of Front Street between Chestnut and Grace. 

Though construction will take place on the roads, the sidewalks will remain open to businesses. Vehicles traveling south on Front or east on Grace will be allowed through the intersection. Pedestrians also can pass between the 200 and 300 blocks, according to a release.  

Upon completion, by September 2022, the 200-300 blocks of North Front will look uniform to its southern counterpart. Beautification and landscaping of Front between Market and Chestnut wrapped in 2010.

The $3.5 million project is paid for by a voter-approved Transportation Bond Projects and jointly funded with the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority.

More information is available at www.wilmingtonnc.gov/northfrontst

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Shea Carver
Shea Carver
Shea Carver is the editor in chief at Port City Daily. A UNCW alumna, Shea worked in the print media business in Wilmington for 22 years before joining the PCD team in October 2020. She specializes in arts coverage — music, film, literature, theatre — the dining scene, and can often be tapped on where to go, what to do and who to see in Wilmington. When she isn’t hanging with her pup, Shadow Wolf, tending the garden or spinning vinyl, she’s attending concerts and live theater.

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