The Cherry Lane extension project will go through land where Steve Gilbert had lived 50 years in a now demolished home.
“It’s an eminent domain thing,” said Gilbert, the widower of Linda Arms Gilbert, the former Murfreesboro City Schools director who died in 2020.
The Murfreesboro government plans to bid out a 30-month construction contract by early 2026 for the five-lane Cherry Lane extension project. The project will extend the road from the city’s Siegel Soccer Park off Lebanon Road, which is part of U.S. Highway 231, to a future interchange at Interstate 840 and Northwest Broad Street, which is part of U.S. Highway 41…