Early City Administrator Tony Aaron, in a Wednesday morning interview on KOXE, gave an update on the long-awaited Boardwalk project at the Early Town Center.

“We’ve been anticipating this day getting started for a while,” Aaron said. “You can drive by there today and see them drilling the piers for the Boardwalk. There’s a very large drilling rig there on tracks that’s drilling down into the soil and reaching to a solid level and they’ll pour piers of concrete and rebar steel there. It’s interesting to watch and everybody walking around the park can get a view of that and see the progress of it. We’re pretty excited about seeing that get underway and watching the Boardwalk come to life.”

The Boardwalk is on the east side of the lake at the Town Center, and next to the Boardwalk will eventually be a row of buildings that will contain yet to be revealed restaurants and other rental/lease opportunities, along with the TownPlace Suites hotel that has not yet started construction.

“Until you get the timeline of when the Boardwalk is going to be finished, when the new road and utilities will be in, we can’t really say when the businesses are actually going to be there,” Aaron said. “But they are waiting and anticipating getting that go-ahead.”

The City of Early in the past shared renderings of the Boardwalk, which can be found HERE.

As for the Atwoods being constructed in the 1700 block of Early Blvd., Aaron said, “It should be somewhere around 300 days to complete the project, and they’ve been on it for a while now. The main focus has been building the pad site and the parking lot. They’re getting to a point now where they’ll start putting in utilities. The City has to put in the water and sewer, and a new street will be coming right next to Atwoods. All of those things are in the works, so there should be a lot activity there over the next 300 days or so.”

The first phase of the Early Springs Estates development, which will feature a little less than 50 new homes near McDonald Park, is rolling along as well. When the full development is finally completed, it will consist of around 200 new homes.

“Our Public Works Department is extremely busy putting in new water and sewer lines at the Early Springs Estates development,” Aaron said. “We’ve been installing the sewer lines in Phase 1 of that development for residential housing. Electrical has already been installed, the street has been laid out and cut out where you can see the neighborhood starting to take shape. The sewer should be finished sometime this week, if not the first part of next week, then they’ll get started on the water after that. Once that’s complete, the paving crew can get in and start paving that street. That new subdivision is coming to come to life over the next six months or so.”

Aaron also provided an update on another significant Public Works project.

“We’ve been doing some rehabilitation projects in the area of Crescent and Park and Grandview, over by McDonald Park,” Aaron said. “We’ve updated the sewer lines, they were probably 70 years old, and that project is complete and they’ve repatched all those streets which have needed repair for the last 30 years. In the next 30 days we’ll be going back in and doing a chip seal coat over all those roads so they’ll have a pretty nice, new driving surface.”