Detours for Williamstown's South Street Project Begin Tuesday

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The long-awaited reconstruction of South Street will begin on Monday, creating a long-term traffic detour that will begin on Tuesday, the town said last week.

Starting Tuesday, April 15, South Street will be one way, southbound from Field Park to the Clark Art Institute.

For the duration fo the 2025 construction season, all traffic leaving the Clark will be directed to Gale Road to Water Street (Route 43).

The first week of construction will largely involve fencing trees for their protection and the installation of sedimentation and erosion controls.

Ultimately, the project will replace all underground infrastructure in the South Street Corridor and reconstruct the traveled way.

"Upon completion in the summer of 2026 the newly renovated South Street will be built to Complete Streets standards with sidewalks along the eastern side of the roadway, narrowed travel lanes to reduce traffic speed, full bike lanes, and two new mid block pedestrian crossings," town officials said in announcing the road work.

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Williamstown Housing Trust Gets Update on Summer Street Project

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:38PM / Thursday, August 27, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity continues to make progress on a planned four-home subdivision off Summer Street despite rising costs.

NBHFH project manager Keith Davis was back before the board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust in August to give an update on the project being developed on a parcel granted to the non-profit by the trustees.

"The majority of the site work is now done," Davis said. "The road base is completely in. We won't blacktop the road until the first foundation is done. It doesn't make any sense to drive a loaded cement truck over fresh blacktop.

"The detention basin is in. All the [stormwater] structures are in. I talked to [DPW Director] Craig Clough about coming in and looking at it, so he can verify all the structures are in. Because a lot of them get buried. That's the next step, to do that and sod it."

The construction package to build the road and stormwater infrastructure cost NBHFH $330,000. The Affordable Housing Trust kicked in $120,000 toward that, and the trustees have committed another $100,000 toward the construction cost of the first home to be built in what the non-profit has named the Meadowlands Subdivision.

Davis told the board at its Aug. 19 meeting that a couple of issues have popped up that have slowed the project and added cost.

One was the removal of an additional five trees on the 1.75-acre parcel.

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