“We would look at substantial completion (of road work) by 2025, before the casino is ready to open its doors,” he said.

Some already have been modernized, Witkowski said. Overall, he said HR Green looked at 10 intersections in the area and is already planning on modernization on some. The city would plan to expand Bilter Road from its current two lanes to four lanes, and eventually expand Farnsworth Avenue to six lanes, three in each direction, between Butterfield Road and I-88. Penn Entertainment hired Chicago-based Langan to do a traffic study of the area around the new casino resort, and the city of Aurora hired HR Green, a national engineering firm with an Aurora office, to review Langan’s study.īrian Witkowski, of the city’s engineering division, said the study was done of all traffic needs in the area - not just what the casino would generate - out to the year 2050. Moore said Hollywood is likely to double its current number of permanent jobs from 350 to 700 people, and Carroll said the project should create an estimated 700 construction jobs.

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