Main Street's midtown side sporting new street lights

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Main Street's midtown side sporting new street lights

A road improvement project on Main Street sits almost completed on Monday. The city of Gainesville has installed new lighting and paved the road in the $400,000 project. - photo by Nick Bowman

08232017 Main1 — A road improvement project on Main Street sits almost completed on Monday. The city of Gainesville has installed new lighting and paved the road in the $400,000 project. - photo by Nick Bowman

Updated: Aug 22, 2017, 10:32 PM

Published: Aug 22, 2017, 9:14 PM

The new decorative street lights on Main Street in Gainesville not only are up, but they flickered on during Monday’s solar eclipse. “That looked pretty good,” said Barry McNicholas, group manager for Slack Auto Parts, which has a store at the corner of Main and Jesse Jewell Parkway. More work lies ahead as Gainesville continues to dress up Main Street south of Jesse Jewell as part of a $400,000 streetscape project.

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