Caddell Street is one of the very few streets in Wake Forest that remains unpaved and, to a large degree, unknown.
It is a one-way dirt track that runs only from Spring Street down to Pearce Avenue with a sharp bend just before the end.
By this time next year it will be two lanes with curb and gutter and sidewalks, and the bend will be smoothed out.
All this is possible because of a grant from Wake County which will provide 80 percent of the estimated cost of $513,878.
Tuesday night at the beginning of the Wake Forest Town Board’s work session, Tom Covington with Wake County and the project manager said they will advertise for bids in the spring and expect construction will take four to five months. “We think this project is going to be beneficial to you.”
Fred Ratz with The Wooten Company, the engineer for the project, said the construction plans are now at 60 percent completion.
Emily Fischbein, who works in the county’s Housing and Community Revitalization Program, was also at the meeting but did not speak.
The street is next to three of the five Habitat for Humanity homes that were built last spring with the help of 15-plus Americorps volunteers and Wake Forest residents who participated in a Build-A-Thon. See the May 7, 2014 Gazette for more details.
