Crowd turns out for 321 meeting
Jeff Eason
The population of Blowing Rock in the winter is less than a third of what it is during the summer. You would not have known that from the turnout Monday at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum’s Community Room.
The Community Room was filled to capacity as Blowing Rock residents and business owners took the opportunity to meet with representatives of the North Carolina Department of Transportation and its subcontractors who will be overseeing the widening of U.S. 321 from Blackberry Road south of Blowing Rock to the Tanger Shoppes on the Parkway.
On hand were about a half dozen representatives of the NCDOT, plus representatives of Sauls Seismic Inc., which will soon be blasting rock for the widening project, and Taylor & Murphy Construction Co. Inc., which is handling the majority of the construction of the new highway. Taylor & Murphy will also be in charge of subcontracting work to other companies for jobs such as the demolition of existing structures that have been purchased by the NCDOT.
The Community Room was filled to capacity as Blowing Rock residents and business owners took the opportunity to meet with representatives of the North Carolina Department of Transportation and its subcontractors who will be overseeing the widening of U.S. 321 from Blackberry Road south of Blowing Rock to the Tanger Shoppes on the Parkway.
On hand were about a half dozen representatives of the NCDOT, plus representatives of Sauls Seismic Inc., which will soon be blasting rock for the widening project, and Taylor & Murphy Construction Co. Inc., which is handling the majority of the construction of the new highway. Taylor & Murphy will also be in charge of subcontracting work to other companies for jobs such as the demolition of existing structures that have been purchased by the NCDOT.