The City of Romulus, MI, is undertaking a buildout of the Vining Road and Ecorse Road corridors to make way for future development and support an ongoing effort to integrate a 2.3 million-square-foot Amazon warehouse facility into the community. Wade Trim is partnering with Romulus consulting engineer OHM Advisors, which is heading up the reconstruction project on Ecorse Road, to design the Vining roadway and major utilities to serve the area. We are also providing construction engineering and inspection services on the Vining Road utility and pavement construction, which stretches from northbound Smith Road to Ecorse Road. The new, two-lane boulevard section includes electric, water and sanitary lines; a box culvert to accommodate the Ecorse Creek and McGee Drain; and mast arm traffic signals at Ecorse Road.

The Amazon warehouse, being built on eastbound Ecorse, is predicted to bring more than 1,000 jobs to the area. The corridor will provide a direct route for future traffic to nearby expressways and the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Along with our design work, Wade Trim has facilitated Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) wetland permitting, landscape architecture, native plantings, maintenance of traffic, utility relocation, and hydraulic analysis for the enclosure and relocation of the Ecorse Creek and McGee Drain.

Technology has played a key role during construction of this project, through cloud-based computing and survey, and drone inspection photography and videography. These unique documentation methods allow for ease of access and high-quality project progress media. The Vining Road utility and pavement construction project is expected to be substantially complete in July 2018.