Streets, Alleys Around Wheeling To Be Resurfaced This Summer
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WHEELING -- The city of Wheeling's annual street paving contract for the current fiscal year is expected to be approved this week, targeting streets and alleys in neighborhoods throughout the city.
An ordinance authorizing Wheeling City Manager Robert Herron to spend around $623,995 with Semper Fi Paving of Bridgeport for the city's 2025 street resurfacing project. This year's paving project will be paid using money from the city's regular RCIP (Restricted Capital Improvement Project) fund and from the City Service Fee.
The paving ordinance received a first reading last month and is slated for a second reading and a final vote during the next Wheeling City Council meeting on Tuesday.
Like other city paving projects in recent years, this pending contract will include not only streets but also alleys. Before the more recent inclusion of alleys in Wheeling's regular annual paving contracts, most alleys in the city had remained untouched for decades. Many of those had fallen into deteriorating condition.
This week, the city manager noted that if the ordinance is approved Tuesday as expected and the contract is signed, the official start and completion dates for the work will be finalized.
"It usually takes about 30 days after city council approval for the contractor to get all the paperwork in," Herron said. "We anticipate starting in June."
Bids for this year's paving contract actually came in considerably under budget, officials previously noted. Council had set aside $800,000 for the annual resurfacing project this fiscal year, but all of the bids for the work came in under budget.
Semper Fi Paving submitted the lowest bid for the work. By comparison, Cast & Baker bid $653,808 on the paving project, Kelly Paving bid $662,124 and NLS bid $727,179.
The 2025 Wheeling street resurfacing project includes the following streets:
∫ Raven Avenue
∫ Hawk Court
∫ North 16th Street from Warwood Avenue to Hildreth Avenue
∫ North 20th Street from Richland Avenue to Wheeling Heritage Trail
∫ North Wabash Street from New Jersey Street to Georgia Street
∫ Dorman Road
∫ Woodland Drive, north of Mountain View Road
∫ Elizabeth Lane
∫ Edgewood Street from Bethany Pike to Woodlawn Lane
∫ Glessner Place
∫ Park Place from the corner to Patricia Drive
∫ Park View Lane from Decatur Avenue to Park View Road
∫ Decatur Avenue from Park View Lane to Grant Avenue
∫ Park Street from South Park Street to North Park Street
∫ Haddale Avenue from Pavilack Court to Bedillion Lane
∫ East Park Street
∫ Shepherd Street from Patterson Avenue to the dead end
∫ Upper Power Avenue
∫ Lower Power Avenue
∫ Cecil Avenue
∫ Hickory Street
∫ Clayton Court
∫ Sherwood Avenue from the cul-de-sac to the dead end
Additionally, the city's street paving project for this year will include the following alleys:
∫ the alley between Vance Avenue and Hess Avenue from North 22nd Street to North 23rd Street
∫ the alley between Chapline Street and Market Street from 11th Street to Lane 7
∫ the alley from Fawn Street to Merwin Street
∫ the alley from Bank Street to Fawn Street
∫ the alley from Bank Street to Fulton Street
∫ Lane 13 from Wood Street to Eoff Street
∫ Lane E from Lane 13 to 14th Street
∫ Lane 8 from 13th Street to Byron Street
∫ Lane 14 from Wood Street at Neely's Grocery to the dead end
∫ Unnamed alley between Poplar Avenue and Maple Avenue
∫ Alice Avenue/Valley View Avenue alley section 1
∫ Alice Avenue/Valley View Avenue alley section 2
∫ Alice Avenue / Valley View Avenue alley section 3
∫ Patricia Drive (alley only)
∫ the alley between Carmel Road and Birch Avenue
∫ the alley between the Elmwood Place loop
∫ Lane A from Courtland Avenue to Mill Acres Drive
∫ the alley from Thornburg Avenue to Waddle Avenue