Holly Springs Parkway to close for widening

Holly Springs Parkway (also known as Main Street) in Holly Springs will be closed for four months starting this spring as the road is widened from the Home Depot store to Rabbit Hill Road. GOOGLE MAPS

Holly Springs Parkway (also known as Main Street) in Holly Springs will be closed for four months starting this spring as the road is widened from the Home Depot store to Rabbit Hill Road. GOOGLE MAPS

The widening of Holly Springs Parkway in its namesake city is expected to start this spring – with a portion of the street closed for four months – now that the City Council has awarded a $3.2 million construction contract to Baldwin Paving Co. Inc., officials announced.

The parkway will be closed from the Home Depot store, just north of Sixes Road, to Rabbit Hill Road from approximately April 1 to Aug. 1. The entire project is expected to take about nine months after the notice to proceed is given.

Plans call for Holly Springs Parkway to get four travel lanes with a median from the Home Depot to Rabbit Hill; an extension of culverts over Toonigh Creek; and sidewalks, lamp posts and a new traffic light at Rabbit Hill. Also, Rabbit Hill will be improved from the parkway to I-575.

To help offset costs, the developers of the Meridian at Holly Springs, a mixed-use residential and commercial project, and the Sixes Ridge and Holly Park apartments will contribute $1,177 per residential unit, or $1.07 million, officials said.