This just in from the city of Spokane:

• CITY CREWS ARE MONITORING STREETS FOR SNOW AND ICE

City crews are monitoring street conditions for snow and ice 24 hours a day to ensure fast response when conditions change.  With winter weather unpredictable, we ask drivers to be prepared for winter driving conditions at all times.

• STREET SWEEPING CONTINUES

Crews will be sweeping in the Hamblin area with an anticipated finish time of Sunday, December 21.  They will move to the Liberty/Lincoln area and next to the Gonzaga area.

• LEAF PICKUP CONTINUES

City of Spokane Street Maintenance crews will begin regularly scheduled leaf pickup Wednesday, Nov. 12. In the event of snow, leaf pick up will stop and then continue when weather allows. Cars will need to be moved off the street during the scheduled leaf pickup time to ensure neighborhoods are cleared of as many leaves as possible.

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• RIVERPARK SQUARE HOLIDAY WESTBOUND LANE CLOSURE SCHEDULE

Every Holiday season River Park Square closes one westbound lane and provides flagging operation to allow vehicles to leave the parking garage just west of Post Street.  Below find this year’s schedule:

• Friday, December 19           (2 p.m. – 7 p.m.)

• Saturday, December 20      (2 p.m. – 7 p.m.)

• Tuesday, December 23       (1 p.m. – 6 p.m.)

• Wednesday, December 24 (1 p.m. – 6 p.m.) - Christmas Eve

• Friday, December 26           (2 p.m. – 7 p.m.)

OTHER CLOSURES

• Sefnco will be closing the left lane of southbound Maple St from 7^th to 11^th from 12/17 until 12/24 to place aerial cable.

• StoneCreek is replacing a hydrant and will have the sidewalk closed on the east side of Regal between 38^th and 39^th from 12/17 until 12/24.

• Lamar Advertising will be closing three northbound lanes of Division at Sprague to install an advertising sign on the railroad overpass. Closure is on 12/22 and is only allowed during the hours of 5am until 7am.

• Mauer Construction has extended their sidewalk closure at 1120 N Division until 1/30/15.  This closure is for demolition work

• Garco Construction will be closing the sidewalk and parking lane including 5 meters along 3^rd between Monroe and Madison for the Lexus addition project from November 19, 2014 – January 20, 2015.

• Driveway access to proposed Tuscan Ridge Development off of Hatch Road / 57^th Avenue is expected to be closed soon due to safety considerations.

CONSTRUCTION

• MONROE/LINCOLN STREE COUPLET, 8^TH AVENUE TO MAIN AVENUE

The project includes reconstruction of the street from 7^th – 17^th Avenues and will replace the asphalt surfacing, including ADA ramps as needed.

• UNDERHILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW (CSO) TANK CONTINUES

This project constructed a combined sewer overflow facility under the parking lot at Underhill Park.

The tank is nearly complete with parks site restoration scheduled for this spring.   Major pipe connections and crossings will be installed in both Thor and Freya when this project restarts, spring 2015.  The work in Freya is more substantial and will not begin until Thor work is fully restored.  Traffic restrictions will be in place when construction begins in spring.

• GARDEN PARK BOOSTER STATION REHABILITATION AT 2403 EAST 37^TH AVENUE CONTINUES

This project is to rehabilitate the existing booster station with a new building, pumps, and motors.

• PHASE II OF HIGH DRIVE, BERNARD STREET TO HATCH ROAD, WILL BEGIN SPRING, 2015

This integrated project includes pavement reconstruction, CSO storage facilities, storm, sewer, swales, and water main replacement from Manito Boulevard to Hatch Road. Phase Two construction is expected to last through fall.

• 33^rd Ave./High Drive/Bernard Street Drywell Installations

Work on this project has been suspended until spring of 2015 due to inclement weather. 

This project will provide drywell installations in nine intersections: 33rd

Avenue and High Drive, Jefferson Street and Regent Court, Jefferson Street and Saxon Court, Lincoln Drive and Saxon Court, Lincoln Drive and Croydon Court, 36th Avenue and Bernard Street, 37th Avenue and East Gate Court, 37th Avenue and High Drive and Bernard Street and High Drive.

• NINTH & PINE RESERVOIR MAINTENANCE PROJECT

Workers are repainting the interior and exterior of the Ninth & Pine Reservoir and completing other important maintenance repairs. Parking on Ninth Avenue near the reservoir will be restricted for a least a month.  Later in the project, impacts will be limited to the reservoir site itself.  The Ninth & Pine Reservoir, which was built in 1969, holds 7.2 million gallons of drinking water.

• CONSTRUCTION PROCEEDS ON RAY STREET COMBINED SEWER & STORMWATER TANK

Construction continues on a 1 million gallon tank on the west side of Ray Street at 21^st Avenue to reduce overflows from the City’s combined sanitary and stormwater sewer system. Occasionally, southbound Ray Street may be reduced to one lane. When lane restrictions are required, they will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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PRIVATE CONVENTION CENTER HOTEL PROJECT

Construction continues on a private developer’s onsite Convention Center Hotel Project within the entire block between Washington St and Bernard St and Main Ave and Spokane Falls Blvd. 

Summary of changes:

There will be a full closure of Spokane Falls Blvd between Bernard and Washington this coming Sunday, December 7, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.  The new skywalk between the Convention Center and Hotel will be lifted in place.  On Friday, December 5, the signal at Bernard for westbound traffic on Spokane Falls will be removed and stop signs placed for each open lane at Bernard. 

On Sunday, December 7, two lanes on Spokane Falls will be merged to one on the south side then detoured on to Bernard St. for southbound traffic only.  Bernard will be closed to northbound traffic at Main St.