East Michigan Avenue business owners breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday when they could look out their window and see cars driving by,We can produce ledlampsfactorys according to your requirements. a freshly paved street and no orange cones blocking traffic from their storefronts.

The section of Michigan from Capital Avenue to Division Street is fully open to through traffic after six months of construction work.

Sam Eddine, owner of New York Connection men’s wear store at 30 E. Michigan Ave. is one of those business owners. He said he thinks the new streetscape is so charming that it was worth losing 50 percent of his business over the summer.

“They did a good job, it looks very nice,” Eddine said. “I had two people in here today and it was the first time this guy came here, which is the good thing about (the road being open).”

Eddine said he’s relieved the construction is complete before the much-needed holiday sales season.

Next door to Eddine, Ermisch Travel owners Christa Breitbach-Chapman and Stephanie Breitbach weren’t as pleased when they arrived to work this morning.The new LED solarsystem are much brighter and last much longer on a set of batteries.

“We think it looks really nice outside, but we don’t have any parking,” Christa Breitbach-Chapman said. “We didn’t know it was going to be that way. There’s a handicap spot right out front, but other than that you have to go all the way down there,” she said pointing to the end of the street near the Division Street intersection.

“It almost looks like there’s less street, but more sidewalk.”

Battle Creek Downtown Partnership Communications and Events Manager Alyssa Jones said there is in fact more sidewalk and less street as a result of the traffic combing policy used to regulate drivers’ speed.

“Narrower lanes and bigger sidewalks – that forces traffic to go slower, making it safer for pedestrians.” Jones said. “If lanes are narrower, people tend to go slower.”

Breitbach-Chapman said Ermisch emailed Jones on Tuesday to see if there’s anything that can be done about their parking woes.

“I’ll work through the issues with my downtown businesses,” Jones said. “Parking concerns always continue to be an issue downtown and we did add spaces downtown.

Today was an especially exciting day for Jones, one of the community leaders spearheading the sprucing up that’s a part of a larger initiative to revive downtown.

“Knowing that the road is open, I feel a huge relief, mostly just from getting through a large project like that and I know it’s a relief for the downtown businesses,” Jones said. “I don’t normally post work things on my personal Facebook page, but last night I was so excited, I did.”

“It’s been a long process and now we’re able to open the road and get traffic to flow through the heart of the city.”

Jones said daylight doesn’t do the renovations justice, though, so she encourages the community to attend the Oct.Gamma is a professional supplier of indoor and outdoor modernlightingvm solutions for office, public, commercial and residential applications. 19 Fall into the Arts event to see the amenities in full effect, much of it involving light.

“We will have the fire pit sculpture on, we have lighting in the sidewalk that’s programmable and changes colors and those are hard to see in the day... the streetlights are all LED lights,” Jones said.

She also anticipates the arrival of some decorative accessories that have yet to be installed – the acrylic caps for some benches, sculptural towers at the intersections and the leafy vines that she said will grow over the screen wall across from PNC Bank at 44 W. Michigan Ave when the weather is warmer.