Portion of East Ash Street to close for a month for mural painting

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A portion of East Ash Street in downtown Columbia will close for about a month beginning on Thursday so a mural can by painted on a building at 110 Orr Street, a Wednesday press release from the City of Columbia says.

The closure between Orr and St. James streets will begin 7 a.m. Thursday and is expected to last through 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, the release says.

Westbound traffic on East Ash Street will be detoured north via St. James Street to Park Avenue or south through Hubbell Drive, the release says. Barricades will be placed on the road to prevent traffic from entering the area.

Sidewalks and parking lanes in the area were already closed as crews work to build a new park at a former superfund site. That closure is expected to last through Nov. 27.

The empty lot at Orr Street and Park Avenue used to be owned by Ameren. Previous reporting from 2023 says the site was determined to be a contaminated Superfund site and was cleaned up starting in 2014. The park will be named North Village Park.