Facelift: The Walmart on College Drive is getting some renovations. A construction permit filed for the estimated $1.2 million project shows workers will renovate 40,000 square feet of the 192,733-square-foot retailer. A spokeswoman for the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant says crews are scheduled to begin work on the 3132 College Drive store around mid-March and hope to finish during the summer. She had no other information at this time.
Keeping the pace: Arlington Properties is still projecting to open the Tapestry Park apartment complex behind Panera Bread on Jefferson Highway in late fall. The company has been working on the site since November and pulled a construction permit for the $13.9 million project Thursday. Arlington Properties Vice President Dave Ellis says crews are a few weeks behind schedule, mostly because of the rainy weather, but he thinks they could make up that time in the spring. Tapestry Park will be a 162,000-sqaure-foot, four-story apartment building at 7857 Jefferson Highway with 124 units.
Cutting the ribbon: City-parish officials on Thursday will cut the ribbon on the $25.8 million Sullivan Road expansion. Workers transformed Sullivan Road from a two-lane road to a four-lane road with a raised median between the Central Thruway and Wax Road in Central. Other improvements included intersection upgrades and additional turn lanes on Sullivan Road. The expansion means Sullivan Road can now act as a north/south thruway from Hooper Road to Nicholson Drive. The project is part of the Green Light Plan, the city-parish’s extensive transportation overhaul program. The ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church Central, 9676 Sullivan Road.
