Construction creates downtown detours
Posted Nov 23, 2012 07:28:04 AM.
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Two major development projects underway in downtown Halifax will cause traffic and parking disruptions today.
A two-block section of Lower Water Street will be closed from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. while the last of the BioSciences Building is demolished.
The former BioScience Enterprise Centre is coming down to make way for a $190-million complex planned for Queen’s Landing.
The development, which could take years to complete, is promised to include a new hotel, stores and office space, as well as a refurbished Maritime Museum with a new berth for HMCS Sackville.
Passenger vehicles are being detoured today from Lower Water, left onto Prince Street and right onto Barrington, while truck traffic will be detoured onto Morris Street, and then onto South Park, Bell Road, right onto Ahern Avenue and right onto Cogswell Street.
Pedestrians will have to make their way up Prince Street from Lower Water and then turn right onto Bedford Row.
Parking restrictions also start today at the site of the new Nova Centre.
The city says there will be temporary parking restrictions, beginning with Market Street, between Prince and Sackville Street, and Sackville between Market and Grafton Street.
Parking won’t be allowed on the side of the street where excavation is happening, for safety reasons.
The city says parking restrictions will shift as work progresses.
