- December 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Business owners have high hopes for a new roadway in south Springfield.
Construction on the Kansas extension was set to begin today.
Drivers and business owners have been waiting since the 1980s for this project to start.
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Right now it ends at Republic Road. It will head south a few miles into the county.
Greene County, the city of Springfield, and MoDOT are beginning work that could bring new business to the area.
It has been on the books for so long, businesses wondered if they’d ever see it happen.
“(I) probably still believe that way,” Beth Perry of Beth’s Bake Shop and Tea Room said. “(I’ll) believe it when I see it.”
But construction on Kansas Expressway Extension is now official, Greene County says. The project will push the road from its current end at Republic Road south about three miles toward the…
