Eagle Road commuters, this roadwork is coming soon. Plus: Village at Meridian to expand
More construction is coming soon to a busy segment of Eagle Road. An expansion of the nearby Village at Meridian shopping center is planned right afterward.
The two are related.
Meridian CenterCal LLC, the local unit of California-based CenterCal Properties LLC, which developed and owns the Village, is gearing up to add a southbound lane to Eagle Road. The lane would stretch from East River Valley Street, the Village’s northern edge, to Franklin Road, a mile south of its southern edge along Fairview Avenue.
The extra lane would bring Eagle Road to three lanes in each direction.
Hugh Crawford, the Village’s general manager, said Friday that the widening is the final road improvement CenterCal is required to make under agreements it signed with the state and local governments a decade ago, when the Village site was still farmland. CenterCal previously added a northbound lane to Eagle. It also widened Fairview nearby and built Village Drive on its site.
“All this roadwork was planned based on our full buildout,” Crawford said by phone. “It will be completed before our expansion, so the roads are ready to accommodate when we go to the next level.”
That level is an expansion of the Village on undeveloped acreage lining both sides of Longwing Drive. Longwing is the entrance to the shopping center from northbound Eagle Road — close to the Urban Outfitters and H&M stores.
The expansion will include stores and restaurants, and likely will include residential and office development, Crawford said.
Work on the expansion will likely occur concurrently with the Eagle lane addition, he said. He did not know how much it would cost.
The road construction is “in the design phase,” Crawford said. “It will go to bid in the next couple of months,” with construction starting “maybe in the spring.”
Eagle Road’s intersection with Fairview Avenue, at the Village’s southwest corner, is possibly the busiest intersection in Ada County.
Under a 2011 agreement, CenterCal will be reimbursed for its highway work from a portion of the state revenue the Village generates in sales taxes.
The Village at Meridian opened in 2013. The $300 million project on 100 acres is one of the biggest commercial projects in the Northwest.
This story was originally published October 10, 2020 at 4:00 AM.