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<p style="font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">August 28, 2020</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Ashlyn Sherman
<br />Marketing Specialist
<br />Community Relations/Public Works
<br />City of Columbia
<br />573.441.5494
<br />Ashlyn.Sherman@CoMo.gov
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<br />Vineet Kapila
<br />Right of Way Technician
<br />Community Development
<br />City of Columbia
<br />573.874.7474</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Lane, sidewalk and alley closure scheduled on Hitt and Cherry streets, Aug. 31- Sept. 4</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beginning </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monday, Aug. 31, at 7 a.m., Marschel Wrecking</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, contractor for 1005 Cherry Street, plans to demolish the existing building</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> This will result in a lane closure of the southbound lane of Hitt Street between East Broadway and Cherry Street, a sidewalk closure on the west side of Hitt Street between East Broadway and Cherry Street, a sidewalk closure on the north side of Cherry Street between South Tenth and Hitt streets, and the closure of a portion of the alley between Tenth and Hitt streets. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two-way traffic will be maintained on Hitt Street utilizing temporary traffic control devices and flaggers. The work associated with the closure is scheduled to be completed by Friday, Sept. 4 by 3 p.m., weather permitting. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Motorists and nonmotorized transportation users are urged to exercise extreme caution when in the work zone. Pedestrians should use the sidewalk on the east side of Hitt Street, and the sidewalk on the south side of Cherry Street.</span></p></div>
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