By Joey Flechas, Times Staff Writer
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The $2.9 million streetscaping of Clearwater’s Cleveland Street is scheduled to be completed in two phases.
CLEARWATER — Drivers on Cleveland Street will soon encounter orange cones, barricades and detour signs as the city begins another phase of streetscaping, this time between Myrtle and Missouri avenues.
The $2.9 million project is set to begin Feb. 7 and is projected to last about a year. The first phase, expected to last six months, will run from Missouri Avenue westward through the Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue intersection.
That intersection will close when work begins, and the busy intersection at Missouri Avenue and Cleveland Street will be shut down about three weeks later. Detours will reroute drivers north to Drew Street via Jefferson Avenue and Grove Street, and south to Court Street via Lincoln Avenue and Pierce Street.
The second ...