Politics & Government
Final O Street Paver Stones Set
The O and P Street Project is close to being totally completed.
On Friday, crews working from either end of O Street met one another in the middle of the 3200 block, where they set in place what could be the very last paver stones of the O and P Street project.
"The crew that has been working for well over a year completely restoring and repaving the cobblestone streets of O and P are almost finished laying down the paver stones, meeting each other like the crews building the Trans-Pacific Railroad," wrote Ben Mast, an O Street resident, in an email to Patch.
The week prior, a group of neighbors held an unofficial ceremony on P Street to mark the near-end of the project. They for his role in bringing the project to fruition.
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An official closing ceremony will be tentatively scheduled for September when the finishing touches are in place.
But for the residents of O Street, Friday's meeting of contractors marked the end of a two-year journey.
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