{"id":48607,"date":"2021-01-22T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/construction-along-76th-avenue-south-in-kent-nears-completion\/"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:14:03","slug":"construction-along-76th-avenue-south-in-kent-nears-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/construction-along-76th-avenue-south-in-kent-nears-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction along 76th Avenue South in Kent nears completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The raising of<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/EgTtzRF2WACvrcCk6\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 76th Avenue South<\/a> in Kent to reduce flooding is nearing completion.<\/p>\n<p>The section of the road between South 228th Street and South 212th Street has been raised by about 3 feet, which is above the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 100-year flood elevation, according to city Public Works staff.<\/p>\n<p>Crews also are installing sidewalks with planter strips, new streetlights and new storm drainage. The raised section of the road was done in concrete to help the street last longer.<\/p>\n<p>The street serves about 5,800 businesses and more than 77,000 employees. A high number of trucks use the road daily. Aerospace company Blue Origin opened a new headquarters, a large blue building, along the road in January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Lanes are open to both southbound and northbound traffic after northbound lanes were closed for several months due to construction.<\/p>\n<p>Work is expected to be completed in the spring, according to city staff.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council awarded a $4.4 million contract in May to Puyallup-based Northwest Cascade Inc., to complete the work. The city received a $2.5 million grant from the state Transportation Improvement Board to help pay for the project. Additional funds are from the city B&#038;O tax and utility funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Road was raised 3 feet to help reduce flooding <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":48608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-48607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48607"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=48607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}