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The Campus Corner summer construction project is expected to be completed by Aug. 7, slightly ahead of schedule, City of Norman officials said.
“We haven’t run into any difficulties,” projects engineer John Clink said. “It’s gone quite well. I’m quite happy with this project.”
Norman street superintendent Greg Hall said White Street renovations are now complete with the exception of adding streetscape furniture. He said the old water lines have been replaced, and there is no danger of the new ones breaking down. Current construction efforts are focused on the intersection of Asp Avenue and Boyd Street, which Hall said was nearly complete.

“We should have Boyd opened up Friday,” Hall said. “On the corner itself, it will probably be the first of next week, and that’s when we’ll start on the east side of Asp.”
Hall said the next phase of construction will take crews up the east side of Asp Avenue, where they will work on curbs, gutters and parking areas. Helen Wolney, president of the Campus Corner Merchants Association, said it was hard to tell whether or not business has slowed as a result of the construction.

“This has been two years in the making, so we all knew that this was going to happen,” Wolney said. “All this is going to do is have a positive impact on Campus Corner when it’s done. I think it will just make the residents of Norman have a cleaner and nicer area to come to, not just a gameday place, but an every day place.”

I was happy to know that the construction on campus corner will be done by the beginning of August. It hasn’t really caused any problems for me for the past couple weeks, but at the beginning of summer the traffic on Boyd Street was pretty bad. Hopefully Campus Corner will look nice when it’s all finished.