12th Street realignment begins Monday
The realignment of 12th Street in Steamboat Springs began Monday, June 11, resulting in some detours within the neighborhood. During construction, access to 12th Street is restricted to everyone but area residents. Work is to be completed by Aug. 23.
Contractors working for Colorado Mountain College are realigning the street to meet the city’s requirement to build a secondary access road to the campus, as part of construction of the college’s new classroom building there. The street is being realigned to make the Crawford Avenue spur the secondary access, becoming a two-lane road that meets all city specifications.
After the road is aligned, emergency services vehicles and snowplows can turn onto 12th Street from the Crawford spur. A retaining wall of stacked boulders will be built east of the road.
The college’s new, 60,000-square-foot administration and classroom building, now under construction and on schedule to be completed by July 24, is replacing the academic space of three outdated buildings originally built as dormitories in the mid-1960s. Fall semester at the college begins Aug. 27.