Construction Projects

The City of Evans’ in-house Sign Shop is actively working to improve signage throughout the community, helping make streets safer, easier to navigate, and more visually consistent across the city.

The Sign Shop plays an important role in maintaining Evans’ transportation infrastructure. Signs are produced locally by the City’s Sign Technician and installed in the field with the assistance of Public Works Technicians. When older or damaged signs are removed, materials are responsibly recycled whenever possible.

As of March 2026, crews are currently replacing and installing new street signs, stop signs, speed limit signs, and other roadway signage along 37th Street, beginning at 65th Avenue and moving west to east toward 1st Avenue.

Once work on 37th Street is finished, crews will move on to 42nd Street, followed by additional north–south arterial roadways throughout the city. The project prioritizes Evans’ busiest roadways first before progressing to collector streets and neighborhood roads.

Maintaining an in-house Sign Shop represents a smart and responsible use of taxpayer dollars. Producing signage internally allows the city to fabricate signs faster, ensure they meet exact specifications, and complete the work at a lower cost than contracting the service externally.

New signage across Evans also provides several important benefits for the community, including, improved roadway safety for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians, easier navigation throughout the city, compliance with required MUTCD retroreflectivity standards that ensure signs remain visible at night, a cleaner, more uniform appearance across city streets and consistent branding that strengthens Evans’ identity.

This ongoing effort represents another example of proactive infrastructure maintenance and thoughtful investment that helps keep Evans moving forward.

This project is intended light up areas of Evans that do not have adequate street lighting using funds from a grant that Evans received from Colorado Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Justice. The grant funds will be used to design, procure, and install streetlights in the vicinity of Highway 85 in areas with limited street lighting in effort to improve safety.

To provide complete design, installation, and purchasing of materials to install 58 Evans style local ornamental streetlights within (3) three identified zones of service and one add alternate zone of service (Zone 4) with an additional 10 Evans style local ornamental streetlights, for a possible total of 68 streetlights. 

Each lighting zone will be individually metered and will become the sole property of the City of Evans Lighting District. The City would also like a fourth zone to be designed that will continue along the frontage roads along the west side of U.S. 85 to the city limits ending at the South Platte River.

See attached Vicinity Maps. Installation of the streetlights in Zone 4 will be dependent upon sufficient funding available to complete Add Alternate No.1 in its entirety. 

Each year, as part of the annual Capital Improvements Projects budget which is funded in part by the 1% Road Tax, the City's Engineering Division prepares plans for concrete replacement work  to remedy damaged, settled and lifted concrete that has the potential to create hazards for motorists and pedestrians, drainage problems and incongruous roadway and sidewalk segments.

In compliance with the City's procurement policies, a competitive bid opening was held in 2024 for a concrete replacement contract with a City option to renew the contract for three (3) years subsequent. Following the work completed in 2024 to the City's satisfaction with the quality of work, the timeliness of completion and respect for private property, the original low bid submitted by Burnt Mountain Services, LLC, was recommended for renewal by City Staff and approved unanimously by the City Council on Feb. 4, 2025. Work on these projects across the City, see attached maps below, will begin in March with targeted completion in May. Very little disruption to the flow of traffic is expected while this work is on-going.