County Commissioners Jess Santamaria and Jeff Koons, along with officials from the Village of Royal Palm Beach and the Indian Trail Improvement District, will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, April 8, in Royal Palm Beach to open the new Western Parkway reliever road.
The event will be held at 9:30 a.m. on the north side of the intersection of Okeechobee Boulevard and State Road 7. Regular two-way traffic will be allowed on the new road immediately following the dedication.
The new two-lane parkway (referred to previously as the Acreage reliever road and/or State Road 7 extension) will enable thousands of commuters from The Acreage to bypass village streets to get to and from Okeechobee Boulevard and State Road 7.
Western Parkway extends approximately 3.5 miles north and west from the Okeechobee/State Road 7 terminus through the beautiful Pond Cypress Natural Area to Persimmon Boulevard in The Acreage. There are currently two connections, at Persimmon and a half-mile further south at Orange Grove Boulevard.
The project cost approximately $25 million, and funding is in place to extend Western Parkway an additional mile to 60th Street North in about two years.
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