A paving project on Broadway and West Broadway in Jim Thorpe is set to get underway this week.

New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co. is the contractor on the project, which will extend from the light at Route 209 to the top end of town.

According to a recent letter from New Enterprise, the project will start on Wednesday and be completed by April 23, weather permitting. Crews will not be working on weekends, Good Friday or the Monday after Easter.

The project, according to borough officials and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will not happen simultaneously with a rock slide mitigation project on Route 209, the Mansion House Hill. PennDOT spokesman Ron Young said Road-Con Inc., the contractor on the rock project, will begin that work in the first week of May.

“This is a state-funded project, and we will try to complete this project as efficiently and timely as possible,” the company wrote in a letter to Jim Thorpe businesses and residents. “We understand there will be, and are sorry for, any inconveniences this may cause, but what we do is a necessity to achieve a quality job and safe as possible worksite.”

Residents are asked not to park on Broadway during the work hours of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Broadway will be posted “No Parking” during that time frame. Any use of the road after the project starts, the company said, will be at the person’s own risk.

“Any cars parked in the work zone,” the company added, “will be towed at the owner’s expense. Removal of the no parking signs will not change this. The signs will be video documented and time stamped on the day they are placed.”

One lane of traffic will be open through town in both directions and will be controlled by cones and flaggers.

The first three days of work will include the beginning of milling operations on the Route 209 end of Broadway, moving west by removing two-and-a-quarter inches of the existing roadway, curb to curb.

On days four and five, New Enterprise plans to place the leveling course, at roughly three-quarters of an inch, on the milled roadway.

“This is the first layer of blacktop to help take out any minor bumps and imperfections in the underlying surface of the existing road,” the company said.

On April 17, 18 and 23, the company will place the final lift, at one-and-a-half inches, over the leveling course, clean and seal the entire curb-line to complete the paving portion of the project. Painting of the double yellow center line and white stop bar at the Route 209 light will also be done at that time.