Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, four years and $35 million in the making, is set to open at 4 p.m. Wednesday. The Anchorage road, south of Tudor Road and parallel to it, will connect Boniface Parkway with Elmore Road and provide a new route for people traveling between South Anchorage and the Boniface and Muldoon areas.
The new road stretches between the Animal Care and Control Center and the Chuck Albrecht ball fields near Elmore.
There's an access road about halfway along Martin Luther King Avenue from the intersection of Tudor Centre Drive and Tudor.
The avenue is five lanes wide and 6,300 feet long.
The city plans to celebrate the opening with food, a parade, games and other events from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday. The ceremony will happen on the avenue near the Elmore Road connection, the city said. The ceremony will include the unveiling of a road sign that commemorates King, a national civil rights leader in the 1950s and 1960s.
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