Portion of Byrd may be closed for a year

Portion of Byrd may be closed for a year

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A portion of Byrd Avenue was closed off indefinitely Friday to accommodate construction and renovations at the Ellis Theater, according to Philadelphia Police in a Facebook post.

City officials announced Thursday that Byrd Avenue will be closed from Main Street to Walnut Street beginning Friday, October 22 at 5 p.m. until further notice.

Mayor James Young said the closure comes to accommodate work being done on the Ellis Theater as part of the ongoing Marty Stuart’s Congress of Country Music project.

“I am glad to see it,” Young said. “We know there will be some inconvenience but it is progress happening downtown.”

Aldermen approved the closure at the first city board meeting of October.

The official announcement does say “until further notice” but Young said the last estimate he heard was that the stretch of road would need to be closed for about a year.






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