COLLIER COUNTY
Massive adjustments and development is coming to a preferred, well-traveled, highway in Collier County. The Vanderbilt Seashore Street extension is all ready for the development to start.
Thursday, Collier County will maintain a public assembly that may inform the general public of the adjustments that may observe.
The venture will embrace seven miles of latest highway development, costing greater than $150,000,000. However the development is primarily excellent news since it’s going to alleviate site visitors, nonetheless, that merely is just not the case for everybody.
The aim of extending Vanderbilt Seashore Rd. is to chop down congestion within the space.
Detlev Hummel just lately moved to The Estates and talked to WINK Information concerning the upcoming adjustments.
“We simply reside off Golden Gate Blvd. and it’s fairly hectic typically making an attempt to get onto Golden Gate heading in direction of Collier,” Hummel mentioned.
When the mud settles and the pavement dries Vanderbilt Seashore Rd. will run from Collier Boulevard to sixteenth Road Northeast.
The realm the place the highway will go is marked by a dotted line, and it’s proper in the midst of the place numerous houses are, and Kevin Kimball is a kind of householders.
“All that will likely be gone and I’ll see the automobiles on Vanderbilt Street going up and down the highway,” Kimball mentioned.
“I’m retired I’m going to be right here and simply to listen to the beep beep beep beep beep all day lengthy is sufficient to get me out of right here,” Kimball defined. And that is precisely why Kimball is making an attempt to depart earlier than the highway is put in.
On Friday, Kimball put his home in the marketplace and is hopeful it’ll promote quickly. Though, development doesn’t start till the Fall.
The general public assembly begins at 5 p.m. and will likely be held on the College of Florida IFAS extension workplace situated off Immokalee Street.