Hubble Creek Trail extension hits halfway point

Jackson’s endeavor to connect the city park and civic center via the Hubble Creek Recreation Trail has hit the halfway point and is on track for completion.

Contractors Lappe Cement Finishing Inc. began work on the 4,600-foot section in August.

Jackson Public Works director Rodney Bollinger said via email a grant from the Missouri Department of Transportation is funding 80 percent of the project.

“[The] project is on-budget and on-schedule and moving along very well,” Bollinger said.

The simultaneous improvements being made to the Nicolus Leist Memorial Band Shell in Jackson City Park are functionally complete, according to city staff engineer Erica Bogenpohl.

The $85,000 project, funded entirely by the municipal band, included replacement of the cracked concrete pad, adding parking, widening Symphony Drive, improving electrical access to the area and making the sidewalks more handicap-accessible.

The project also installed a better storm drainage system that’s intended to mitigate some of the issues that cracked the original concrete pad.

“All pavement and infrastructure is in place,” Bogenpohl said. “All that is remaining is final grading.”

The area is technically ready to open but will remain blocked off until the grading happens.

“It is open now, kind of,” Bogenpohl said. “We typically have a ‘Park Closed’ barrier up when there are no events at the band shell, but otherwise, construction of the pavement is complete, and it is drivable.”

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