Business & Tech
Alice’s Road Entering the Home Stretch
Grading expected to begin this fall, clearing the way for development on new "gateway" to the western suburbs.
Development activity is starting to heat up along the Alice’s Road corridor, which will be a gateway to Waukee, West Des Moines and the western suburbs when construction is completed at the new Interstate 80 interchange in 2015.
Bradley Burt, who owns 138 acres of land in the vicinity, recently reached an agreement to sell 2.2 acres of land to Kum & Go, the Des Moines Register reports.
And that’s just the start of more things to come now that construction is finally set to begin. Construction bids are scheduled to be opened in October, with grading starting in November, and that could trigger more land sales, said Burt, who is the owner, president and chief executive officer of Maid-Rite Corp.
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The Alice’s Road interchange and corridor, a joint project between the cities of Waukee and West Des Moines, has been in the planning stages for more than a decade. The project has been delayed several times, most recently by the discovery of the possibility of an endangered Indiana bat. Federal approval of an enviornmental study is expected soon.
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