Holly Springs Parkway Widening Project On The Horizon

HOLLY SPRINGS, GA — The Holly Springs City Council has awarded a contract to Baldwin Paving Company, Inc. to widen its main arterial roadway. Council members at their Jan. 18 meeting awarded the $3.2 million contract to the low bidder to widen Holly Springs Parkway from Home Depot to Rabbit Hill Road.

The city notes three residential projects slated to come online will help offset construction costs for the widening project. Developers of Meridian at Holly Springs, a mixed-use residential and commercial project being constructed across from Home Depot, Holly Park apartments, and Sixes Ridge apartments will contribute $1,177 per residential unit to the widening project. The city notes this amounts to a little more than $1 million.

Sixes Ridge paid their $400,180 contribution on May 15, 2017, while Meridian at Holly Springs and Holly Park will submit their payments as building permits are issued.

The widening project will include extending culverts over Toonigh Creek, four travel lanes with a median from Home Depot to Rabbit Hill Road, the addition of sidewalks and lamp posts along the roadway an a traffic signal at the intersection of Holly Springs Parkway and Rabbit Hill Road.

As part of this project, Rabbit Hill Road is also slated for improvements from its Interstate 575 overpass to Holly Springs Parkway.

Total construction time will be about nine months once the contractor receives its notice to proceed from the city. However, you should note Holly Springs Parkway will be closed to through traffic between Rabbit Hill Road and Home Depot from about April 1 to Aug. 1 of this year, the city said.

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