One the top stories of 2021 in Marseilles is the realignment of Commercial and Broadway Streets. The city has been working on getting the project started for a few years.
Engineer Jose Alvarez said in January that semi-truck drivers have been having issues turning from Main St. onto Commercial St, and it’s awkward for drivers coming up Broadway because it’s off kilter. Commissioner Nathan Schaefer says before the project could continue the city had to relocate a business and person from one building they needed to knock down.
The city had to relocate a tenant and a business.
That building and a gas station have been taken down so Broadway and Commercial Streets can become realigned.
City of Marseilles Facebook picture of the building demolition at Commercial and Main streets Wednesday
The city almost went to court over some land that was going to be purchased, but then the owner backed out. Mayor Jim Hollenbeck says the city and the Seneca man were able to work it out. He says it could have dragged out in court and by then, the project might not have been done.
Hollenbeck says he thinks it could resume in the spring of next year.