Halifax street closures to last months as part of Cogswell redevelopment project
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A section of Cogswell Street in Halifax will soon be closed for several months as crews continue work on the ongoing Cogswell District project.
A section of Cogswell Street in Halifax will soon be closed for several months as crews continue work on the ongoing Cogswell District project.
The project will extend the downtown area’s entrance northward and create development blocks capable of supporting new residential and commercial developments for 2,500 people. It comes with a price tag of $122.6 million.
The Cogswell Interchange was built in the 1960s to accommodate a planned waterfront freeway that was never built. The municipality is now looking to right the wrong from its build.
During a recent tour of the project site to mark the development reaching the halfway point, the municipality outlined some of the work that still needs to be done — including a new transit hub, which is earmarked for four lanes, along with a complete lowering of the Cogswell Street interchange.
The interchange has to be trucked out of the existing intersections of Barrington Street and Cogswell Street, which is currently located on a hill. The city can’t blast in the area due to its proximity to heritage sites.
In a release Wednesday, Halifax Regional Municipality said the street closures will take place in two phases.
Cogswell Street from Brunswick to Barrington streets will be closed from Oct. 18 until June 2024. Residents will be able to detour via Brunswick, Duke or Cornwallis streets, and a number of transit routes will also be re-routed.
“During Phase 1, crews will work on mass excavation, installing underground services and the construction of a new detour road that will open in conjunction with the beginning of Phase 2,” the release said.