A section of South Street in downtown Raleigh will close for good on Monday, April 14, to make way for a new Red Hat Amphitheater just south of the existing one.
The street will be closed permanently between Dawson and McDowell streets. City officials said they need that block to build a new amphitheater and make room for a long-planned convention center expansion .
The city is still working on a plan to re-route traffic, pedestrians and cyclists around that section of South Street. It has proposed a new connector just south of the new amphitheater that would allow eastbound drivers to get from Dawson to McDowell. The single-lane connector would end at a new traffic light on McDowell, where drivers would turn left toward the heart of downtown.
The connector needs approval of the N.C. Department of Transportation, which owns Dawson and McDowell. NCDOT is still reviewing the designs, said Paul Kallam, the city’s transportation director…