FORT PIERCE — City officials, community members, and project partners gathered earlier this week at 1217 Avenue D as Fort Pierce officially broke ground on a sweeping $4 million road improvement project along one of Lincoln Park’s most traveled corridors.
The Avenue D Road Improvement Project, with a total cost of $4,072,873.50, will resurface approximately 1.6 miles of roadway stretching from 29th Street to U.S. 1.
Beyond repaving, the project includes a broad set of upgrades aimed at making the corridor safer and more accessible — among them, reconstructed ADA-compliant ramps, improved sidewalks and driveways, updated signage, enhanced pedestrian crosswalks, and new vehicle detection systems at signalized intersections to improve traffic flow…