Development, Transit| Published on January 26, 2009 9:45 am

71/665 interchange opens door to Rickenbacker

By: Walker


From The Dispatch:

Grove City expects payday in upgrade
By Martin Rozenman

Grove City’s leaders plan a revamped interchange at I-71 and Rt. 665 like the one Columbus and Dublin built to untangle Sawmill Road at I-270.

Called a “single-point urban interchange,” the $44 million project is scheduled to open in 2011. Construction would start in the spring of 2010, said Mike Keller of EMH&T engineering, which is designing the project.

“One of the key things to this interchange is, we’re actually a west gateway to Rickenbacker (Airport), and that intersection is only 13 minutes from Rickenbacker,” he said.

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4 Comments

  • L.I. to Buckeye January 26, 2009 11:24 pm

    Oh man.  I work right there.  The contstruction is going to be a mess.  I guess I’ll have to leave for work super-early for a year or so…

  • Walker November 21, 2009 12:35 am

    City hopes state council OKs plan
    Wednesday,  November 18, 2009
    By EVAN BROOKS
    ThisWeek Staff Writer

    Grove City officials made their bid Nov. 12 to a state transportation council to increase the funding priority of the estimated $34-million Interstate 71-state Route 665 interchange makeover.

    Their goal was to have the council increase the funding priority of the project from tier two to tier one, giving the go-ahead for millions of federal and state dollars already allocated for the project, Honsey added.

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  • Walker October 21, 2010 3:46 pm

    I-71 interchange project at Rt. 665 to get under way Friday
    Thursday, October 21, 2010
    BY LISA AURAND
    ThisWeek Community Newspapers

    Local and state officials are to break ground at 10:30a.m. Friday for a major overhaul of the I-71 interchange at Rt. 665.

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  • Walker January 31, 2011 11:15 pm

    I-71/Route 665 upgrades set to begin in Grove City
    Business First – by Adrian Burns
    Date: Monday, January 31, 2011

    Work is slated to begin Feb. 14 on a $22 million interchange revamp in Grove City that will be paid for in part by a forgivable loan made through the state’s logistics stimulus program, the state said in a construction update released Monday by the Ohio Department of Transportation.

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