New streets on tap near Creasy/South intersection?
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CITY STUDYING NEW STREETS TO FEED LAND NORTHEAST OF CREASY AND SOUTH
Lafayette is looking at a series of new streets, traffic patterns and other improvements just northeast of the corner of South Street and Creasy Lane, one of the busiest intersections in the city.
With prospects of hotels, conference space and restaurants being contemplated in an area tucked behind South Street, running roughly between Creasy Lane and Eastland Drive, the Lafayette Redevelopment Commission approved a $48,000 contract to have TBIRD Design Services look at traffic volume, signals and what it would take to improve access to the property.
A map with the contract contemplates a new street that would run between the D&R plaza and homes on Rome Drive, matching up with a southern entrance to Lowe’s on the other side of Creasy Lane. It also shows one that would cut across what is now at drive that feeds the D&R plaza and the back entrances to several retail locations, including Raising Cane’s and a Wawa convenience store being built next door.
“That’s kind of the last area that hasn’t been developed out there,” Dennis Carson, Lafayette’s economic development director said. “We want to see what’s even possible.”
Carson said the city doesn’t have a timeline for when new roads might be designed and built. He said the city would wait for the new study to determine what was possible.
The contract approved Thursday morning also calls for public meetings to get input from those in the area.
‘LEMON POUND CAKE’ TIME IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE, FRESH FROM THE TRIAL
Anyone looking for a Ted Talk on First Amendment rights from Joseph Foreman – stage name: Afroman – when he stepped on the Rat Pak Venue riser in downtown Lafayette, days after a verdict that cleared the rapper in a $3.8 million civil defamation lawsuit filed by Ohio police officers, didn’t get many lectures Tuesday night beyond repeated affirmations after pot-laced lyrics that “Lafayette’s got some rollers.”
Instead, Afroman, performing in front of second-floor window overlooking the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, told the story – one about a police raid of his home that provided security footage he turned into a series of viral video that had officers claiming injury – in the coarse, payback songs that landed him in court and that the majority of the 200-plus in the hall knew word-for-word.
