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Main Street update

Workers move piping in place along Main Street in Lake Placid Tuesday afternoon, April 13, as part of the early phases the village’s $10 million construction project which is scheduled to last for more than two years. (News photo — Lou Reuter)

LAKE PLACID — For the week of Monday, April 19 to Friday, April 23, Main Street work is expected to continue with the excavation to replace the water main, according to Kate Thompson of the Lake Placid-North Elba Community Development Commission, which is helping the village with public information updates about the project.

Crews will pick up near the Palace Theatre and move south toward the post office. Another crew will continue work on the drainage installations for the portion of the new stormwater management system at the north end of Main Street, near One Main Park. Work may also begin to install the new stormwater catch basin there.

Businesses on Main Street are still open daily for business.

Parking will be limited in the direct work area, and it will be restored as crews move.

Delivery zones on Main Street are open and reached by driving northbound. They may be moved as work areas move.

Detours will run through the end of June during the spring 2021 construction cycle. Trucks and cars traveling through Lake Placid to or from Saranac Lake are being directed to use Old Military Road between Saranac Avenue (Route 86) and Sentinel Road (Route 73).

Traffic through Main Street will move like in a rotary. It will be one way north from the post office to One Main Street Park, and up the hill on Saranac Avenue to St. Agnes Church. Hillcrest Avenue will be one way southbound to the Crowne Plaza on Olympic Drive. Olympic Drive between the Crowne Plaza and Main Street are two-way.

Two temporary traffic lights are active. One is located at the Olympic Drive and Main Street intersection near the Olympic Conference Center. Another is located at the intersection of Wesvalley Road and Saranac Avenue.

Information about the Main Street upgrade, including an interactive map of the detours, can be found on the village website — http://villageoflakeplacid.ny.gov/ — under “Main Street upgrade.”

Questions can be sent by email to the village of Lake Placid at lpinfo@villageoflakeplacid.ny.gov or by contacting Development Director Haley Breen (518-523-9516 ext. 267) or Village Clerk Anita Estling (518-523-2584).

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