Annie's Updates: Openings on First Street 'Phased' From Sept. 26 to Oct. 31

Merchants and residents can look forward to a phased reopening of First Street later this month and next, according to the latest update on First Street construction.

Merchants and customers of businesses from that stretch of First Street from Main to State streets, however, might need to meditate or take a patience pill.

According to the map posted on the construction website, firststreetlosaltos.org, the intersection of First and Main streets is set to open Sept. 26. The section of First Street between Main and State Streets, however, isn't scheduled for reopening until Oct. 31. And that's with crews working seven days a week, as they have been since Sept. 6.

Sidwalks will reopen in six phases, marked on the map as sections A through F, but dates have not yet been determined.

The phased opening map posted on website. Project Information Officer Beverly Tucker advises merchants and residents check website weekly for updates to schedule.

If business owners want  contact cards or phased opening diagrams to post, Tucker says she can be called or emailed at (650) 947-2889 btucker@losaltosca.gov 

Each week, Annie's Update, more prosaically named "First Street Construction Update," lands in email boxes all over town. This service began when First Street construction ramped up in July, after the Arts & Wine Festival. Each week Patch provides an abridged version of the update. 

To access the full report you can:

• Visit the First Street Los Altos website
• If you like social media for its immediacy, you should "like" the First Street Project Facebook page
• And follow on Twitter at @FirstStreetLA
• Sign up for Annie's Updates newsletter so updates land weekly in your mailbox

Here's what the city expects to do this coming week:

    •    Create sidewalk forms for First & Main intersection
    •    Begin pouring first phase of sidewalk concrete
    •    Begin pouring concrete for the first Chevron driveway
    •    Begin demolition of Main Street between Foothill Expressway and the current work area at First Street
    •    Begin grading for new Main Street road way adjacent to Foothill Expressway
    •    Extend new curb and gutter forms up Main Street towards Foothill Expressway

Each Thursday afternoon at 3:00 pm throughout the project, construction update meetings will be held in the Chamber of Commerce Conference Room, 321 University Ave. The next meeting is September 15. If you're unable to attend the meeting, sign up for weekly email updates.

Confused about what streets will get you where, and how to get into your familiar parking lots? Here's the "Get Around Guide," a map.