Concord's Main Street will be Ready for Market Days

Next week construction crews will work Monday – Wednesday. The South Main Street construction area will be buttoned up for Concord’s annual Market Days Festival, which begins Thursday.

Update for the week of June 20, 2016, submitted by the Concord Main Streets Project.

On Monday and Tuesday, Severino Construction will excavate and place two concrete vaults in preparation for the undergrounding of overhead utility lines (power, telecommunications) on South Main later this summer. One on Hills Ave and one north of Thompson Street on the west side of South Main Street.

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The vaults are 8 feet high and are of two sizes: 6 x 6 feet and 8 x 14 feet. The larger vaults weigh 61,000 pounds and come in three pieces. These underground rooms are accessed from above by manholes and will be the hubs for utility connections. Concrete sidewalks will be poured in front of the Smile building during the short construction work week, and the hardscape crew is scheduled to install granite tiles at the bump-out near Gibson’s Bookstore.

Please note: South Main Street will be closed to all traffic from the Pleasant Street intersection to just south of Concord Food Co-op for the Market Days Festival. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 10 a.m. daily and features music, entertainment, food and shopping. It offers fun for all ages and admission is free!

Caption: This top section of an 8 x 14 utility vault weights 17,000 pounds. The excavator behind it will lift 28,000 pounds. The vaults were manufactured by Phoenix Precast Products on Regional Drive in Concord.