Bond 2024 will invest heavily in street improvements [Video]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A majority of Bond 2024 will be spent on street repair and improvements.

The $175 million bond is split among parks, streets, public-safety infrastructure, as well as libraries and community centers.

The largest chunk of Bond 2024 will be spent on street improvements.

An example of the last major bond on streets is improvements and widening along Yorktown Boulevard, which has just begun.

“We have a lot of new developments on the South Side, a lot of new homes being built,” said realtor Karo Azali. “The Del Mar campus, and especially the new elementary and middle CCISD schools that are opening up.”

Azali has his main office just off Yorktown, and said the work that’s about to begin is needed when he sees kids waiting for school busses on the edge of an unfinished roadway.

“We need roads that can support that demand of traffic and the amount of safety that’s needed,” he …