Downtown Concord: A Major Excavation Completed

CONCORD, NH — A new look for City Plaza. The state of New Hampshire this week removed the omnipresent bushes surrounding the iconic Franklin Pierce statue that overlooks North Main Street. This improvement not only reveals heretofore unseen (at least by this generation of Concordites) inscriptions on the sides and back of the statue's granite pedestal, but also opens up a pleasing vista of the State House grounds. The statue is the work of Augustus Lukeman and was placed here by the State in 1914.

The major excavation and conduit placement for underground utilities on South Main is complete. As we move into next week, we’ll begin to see telecommunications companies (Fairpoint, Comcast) arrive to pull cable through the new conduit. Unitil has been on the scene for several weeks and will continue to be a presence downtown.

A private subcontractor is coming in to connect individual building electrical services in the project area beginning with Constantly Pizza and Abbott Bennett Insurance.

The utility companies will notify building owners and businesses of any planned service interruptions as their service is transitioned. When these do occur they are expected to be brief.

Also next week a crew will pour concrete sidewalks from the Concord Food Coop’s driveway south toward the Capitol Center for the Arts. The hardscape crew will continue laying brick in the project sidewalk areas.

By Friday, the Capitol Center for the Arts crosswalk bumpout will be paved in preparation for the sidewalk snowmelt system it is paying to have installed.

Small crews will work this Saturday and next. Traffic in the work area will not be affected.

Be sure to visit concordmainstreetproject.com for more information and project updates.
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Submitted by the Concord Main Streets Project.