Parkway Boulevard Will Be Ready To Open By End Of Month, Oconee County Public Works Director Says

Parkway Boulevard Extension will be paved and ready to be opened by the end of the month, Oconee County Utility Department Director Emil Beshara told a meeting of the regional transportation planning body.

Work on the project “is going very well,” Beshara told the Technical Coordinating Committee of the Madison Athens-Clarke Oconee Regional Transportation Study (MACORTS) at its meeting late last month in Athens.

Beshara said he isn’t sure when the road actually will be opened to traffic, however, because none of the commercial development the road is designed to spur has been built.

Epps Bridge Centre Phases II and III, the chief beneficiary of the county’s financing and construction of the roadway, will be before the county Development Review Committee on Friday with a revised Preliminary Site Plan for the project.

For more on this story, including aerial photographs of Epps Bridge Centre Phases II and Phase III and of Parkway Boulevard Extension, go to Oconee County Observations.

Pictured: Emil Beshara at MACORTS.