March 2025 Project Update

Happy St. Patrick's Day - The City has continued to make progress on getting the Hickory Creek Road Phase 3 project back into construction. We sincerely appreciate your patience, and questions. This project is extremely important to the City and will offer such a great benefits and traffic relief when complete. As of today, we are continuing to work with the contractor on an exact date for starting work. The target has been 1st Quarter 2025 and that still may happen but construction most likely won't kick off until April 2025. Construction will take approximately 18 months once started. The following successes over the past couple of weeks include several hurdles to the project's timeline:

• 3/14/25 Gas foam line Utility conflict cleared.
• 3/5/25 TxDOT Approved work in TxDOT right of way for new road tie-in and new northbound right turn lane from Country Club/FM 1830 to new Hickory Creek Road
• 3/3/25 Railroad agreement executed. I cannot tell you how significant this accomplishment has been. Coordination with the Railroad started years ago. In fact, the plans were submitted to the railroad 8/24/2021 and approved 2/4/2022. The agreement was almost approved in 2023 but the KCS and CP railroads merged and EVERYTHING that was coordinated needed to start from scratch with the newly formed CPKC railroad. Council approved the agreement 12/17/2024 and, as noted, the Railroad just approved the agreement on Monday March 3, 2025.
• Underway - Atmos Gas - New Line is in construction (not part of Hickory Creek Road Project but coordinated).

Please stay tuned to this page for updates on the start date and future construction progress. For those with more questions - you are welcome to use the Ask the Project Team in this webpage or if easier - please don't hesitate to contact me directly at Tracy.Beck@CityofDenton.com