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Phase I includes the new building, courtyard areas that will connect the existing engineering space to the new structure, as well as various site improvements.
Crews Working to Demolish Older Bridge Structure On Highway 75 Demolition of the 83-year-old bridge that carried Alabama Highway over Town Creek, north of the DeKalb County community of Geraldine, began July 30, 2025, after a more modern span across the deep ravine opened earlier in the month. The newly-built structure provides motorists with a longer, wider and taller bridge that includes shoulders and corrects the steep vertical curves on both approaches to improve safety, the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) noted in
a news release. Once it was completed, crews shifted vehicle traffic to the new bridge, built by Miller and Miller General Contractors in Huntsville at a cost of $13.7 million. When the work began in October 2023 to build the new structure, included among the contractor’s first tasks were boring and casting eight drilled shafts to form a stable foundation and installing 32 massive steel girders to support the bridge deck. see BRIDGE page 2
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The old bridge set to be demolished.