{"id":325226,"date":"2026-06-30T22:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325226\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:09:10","slug":"jacksonville-says-court-street-construction-remains-on-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325226\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville says Court Street construction remains on schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A construction project on Court Street in downtown Jacksonville remains on track to finish later this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Court Street has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/04\/20\/jacksonville-court-street-project-costs-more-than-double-after-design-change\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/04\/20\/jacksonville-court-street-project-costs-more-than-double-after-design-change\/\">closed since April 20<\/a> while crews removed brick from part of the roadway and converted another section to two-way traffic by removing the median.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City Manager Joshua Ray says the project has gone as planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The project drew criticism from some downtown business owners, including Clove Hitch Beer Company, who said removing the brick would take away some of the area\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city later reached a compromise, agreeing to replace the brick with stamped, dyed concrete designed to give a similar look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ray says construction remains on schedule and is expected to be completed by mid-September.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[97663,1127,8219,52115,2318,9000,116,118,117,76076,4481,1854,724,7838,8561,728,4480],"class_list":["post-325226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-clove-hitch-beer-company","tag-construction","tag-court","tag-court-street","tag-downtown","tag-downtown-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-joshua-ray","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-road","tag-road-construction","tag-schedule","tag-street","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}