Construction work to improve the interchange at South Illinois Avenue and Centrifuge Way in Oak Ridge is pictured above in December 2012.
Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner John Schroer will be in Oak Ridge on Thursday for the dedication of a new interchange at Centrifuge Way and South Illinois Avenue, or State Route 62.
Centrifuge Way is the former Boeing Road in south Oak Ridge.
The dedication is at 4:15 p.m.
In December 2012, Oak Ridge Today reported that construction work on the $1.2 million state project had started and was expected to be complete by June 2013. The work included building three detention ponds to be used as sediment basins during construction, reconfiguring the interchange, and extending Centrifuge Way.
A public road from the improved Centrifuge Way interchange in south Oak Ridge leads to the top of Pine Ridge, where the Tennessee Division of Forestry conducted controlled burns last year.
The Oak Ridge City Council asked for the Centrifuge Way interchange improvements in July 2010. At the time, Oak Ridge Interim City Manager Gary M. Cinder said the city had received several requests for the improvements to the overpass.
The improvements were expected to immediately benefit USEC, a uranium enrichment company located at the former Boeing plant, but it could also benefit the marketing of property on Pine Ridge across from USEC, Cinder said.
John Schroer
Schroer will also be the keynote speaker at a invitation-only Thursday evening regional legislative agenda of the Oak Ridge and Knoxville chambers of commerce and the Blount Partnership at the Riverside Grille.
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