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First Posted: 7/10/2013 DUPONT &#8212; Officials broke ground Wednesday on a multi-phased, $41.9 million project that will bring the first traffic roundabouts to Luzerne County, among other things.
When complete, possibly by late 2015, the work will reshape the Avoca interchanges off I-81, open up a portion of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport property for development and provide easier access for vehicles from an industrial park to and from the interstate that in turn will alleviate congestion on Dupont&#8217;s thoroughfares.
Pennsy Supply Inc., of Annville will perform the work that required the cooperation and approval of the Federal Aviation Administration, the airport&#8217;s Bi-County Board of Directors, PennDOT and local municipalities.
Charlie Adonizio, the immediate past president of the Greater Pittston Chamber of Commerce, said once completed, the project will entice companies to take a closer look at becoming tenants in the Grimes Industrial Park and it will bring jobs and additional tax base to Greater Pittston.
&#8220;This will be the catalyst,&#8221; Adonizio said.
It&#8217;s a catalyst that&#8217;s long been promised.
Back in the late 1980s the portion of the project connecting the industrial park to I-81 through the airport was first suggested. Rosemary Dessoye, now the chamber&#8217;s director, remembers sending out letters to tenants of what was then called the Eastern Distribution Center, now the Grimes Industrial Park, on her first day of work, Nov. 1, 1989. The letters were seeking letters of support for the project.
The cost was just too high and the project lingered on the back burner as other projects in the region, including the Casey Highway in Lackawanna County, proceeded.
But it picked up steam in recent years thanks to State Rep. Mike Carroll, D-Avoca. Once the I-81 interchange was coupled with the connector road project, it began to gain traction in a hurry.
Carroll, who received praise from multiple officials Wednesday during the groundbreaking, called the project &#8220;a great, great day for Greater Pittston and a great, great day for Lackawanna and Luzerne counties.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s an excellent improvement for Northeastern Pennsylvania&#8217;s transportation and infrastructure network,&#8221; said George Roberts, the executive for PennDOT&#8217;s District 4 in Dunmore.

Ground broken for long-simmering I-81 interchange project