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<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">June 24, 2021</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Ashlyn Sherman
<br />Marketing Specialist
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<br />573.441.5494
<br />Ashlyn.Sherman@CoMo.gov
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<br />Vineet Kapila
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<br />Vineet.Kapila@CoMo.gov</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%;">Intersection of Nifong Boulevard and Peachtree Drive to close June 28 - July 2</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beginning Monday, June 28 at 7 a.m., Emery Sapp and Sons, contractor for the City of Columbia Public Works Department, will be closing the intersection of Peachtree Drive and Nifong Boulevard to replace the pavement as part of the Nifong Boulevard Corridor; Forum Boulevard Improvement Project. The intersection will be reopened Friday, July 2 by 7 p.m., weather permitting. Access to Peachtree Drive will be maintained via the new Aurora Drive and Nova Way streets.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This improvement adds two additional through lanes, bike lanes, sidewalks and intersection improvements along Nifong Boulevard between South Providence Road and Willowcreek Lane, and along Forum Bouelvard between Nifong Boulevard and Green Meadows Road. The investment for this project is estimated at $12,300,000 paid for by the 2015
Capital Improvement Sales Tax. More information on this project may be found at </span><a href="https://www.como.gov/publicworks/nifong-corridor-and-forum/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CoMo.gov/publicworks/nifong-corridor-and-forum/<br /><br /></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Motorists, pedestrians and nonmotorized transportation users are urged to exercise extreme caution when in the work zone and to find alternate routes when possible. </span></p></div>
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