While it is not ordinarily a heavily traveled route, anybody who typically would use S. Euclid Avenue as a short cut route will need to take the long way around for the balance of the summer as the Berrien County Road Commission prepares to upgrade that road substantially beginning Monday.
Michael Juengling is Traffic Safety & Technology Supervisor for the Berrien County Road Commission and he tells us that S. Euclid Avenue will be closed to through traffic beginning next Monday, July 10th for reconstruction and the road will remain off the grid until around Labor Day.
The road commission will rebuild the road at a cost of $199,000, raising the road grade in sections by a foot, widening the road and then applying a double layer of tar and stone. Berrien County is covering the cost of the project which should be completed by the Labor Day holiday weekend.
Juengling wants everyone to know that inasmuch as the Berrien County Animal Control facility on S. Euclid will be impacted by the road work, access will be maintained to that facility at all times throughout the process. See the map above for the area affected, running between Napier and Empire Avenues, west of the Lake Michigan College Napier Avenue Campus. The detour will take travelers on Empire down to Yore, over to Napier and back west to I-94, while those headed on Napier will get the reverse of that detour if headed to the Empire Avenue neighborhood.
