Demolition work to bring down the former Atlantic Wire factory along it’s Meadow Street side means closing a segment of the road, but only during hours when demolition work is underway on the building “along the highway” (Meadow Street); with the area re-opened to traffic during hours when work isn’t going on, said Town Engineer Janice Plaziak.

Eventually, the segment of Meadow street now undergoing temporary closings will experience a more permanent change; when it will become a one-way street segment.

The new one-way segment is part of the 2015 town-approved development plan for the 205 residential unit, mixed-use Atlantic Wharf development replacing Atlantic Wire.

Atlantic Wharf’s new street plan will also add a new, four-way intersection at Montowese Street and Pine Orchard Road linking to new, two-way road section that will run past the new Atlantic Wharf (facing the Branford River). The other end of the new road will intersect with Church Street and Meadow Street.

The ten-building project will be built in phases and include the construction of one building on an empty Meadow Street lot (across from the former factory site), with nine additional buildings, the new two-way road and an underground parking garage going in across the way.