I-69 Design Build Interchange

Hopkins County, Kentucky

“I’m not any more proud of anything we’ve done” than the designation of 97 miles of I-69 in Western Kentucky, said Governor Steven Beshear, asserting it would have “a long-lasting impact” on the region.

“It will bring a lot of advantages,” including safer travel and serving as “a powerful tool for economic development,” Beshear said. “All you have to do is go anywhere in the United States and see what an interstate brings,” he added.

Others agreed.

Upon receiving the interstate designation, Christian County Chamber of Commerce President Carter Hendricks declared, “Having that Interstate designation … creates more marketability from an economic development perspective.”

The lynchpin of the conversion of the parkway system in western Kentucky to I-69 is the reconstruction of the Western Kentucky Parkway Interchange with the Pennyrile Parkway.

This project was selected as a design build candidate in the fall of 2013. In two months, our design build team developed final level construction plans for this $29 million interchange.