Since early June, Broadmoor Avenue between 76th and 92nd streets has carried one lane of traffic each way, with lane closures running from Kraft Avenue down to Main Street. The Village of Caledonia said the stage would stay "through mid-November," weather permitting. That end point is now close. At the Village Council's August 10 meeting, the update was that the traffic shift would continue "until November."
MDOT's staging plan for the $50 million rebuild ends the 2026 season with the corridor split at 84th Street. South of 84th, the plan opens the new four-lane boulevard. North of 84th, traffic stays in temporary lanes on the new east side until the last stage wraps up in 2027. Which half you drive depends on where your errands are, and that's what shapes your winter.
The winter plan, stage by stage
MDOT's public open-house displays set out the whole build in stages. The winter step is the one that matters right now.
| Season | South of 92nd to north of 84th | North of 84th to north of 76th |
|---|---|---|
| Spring/Summer 2026, Stage 2 | Traffic on existing M-37 while crews build the east side | Traffic on existing M-37 while crews build the east side |
| Summer/Fall 2026, Stages 3 and 4 | Traffic moves to the new east side while crews build the west side | Traffic on existing M-37 while the east side is finished |
| Winter 2026-2027 | Boulevard opens to traffic | Traffic on the new east side |
| Spring/Summer 2027, Stage 5 | Boulevard stays open | West side of M-37 and west sides of local roads get built |
MDOT showed this schedule at its public meetings, which took place before construction started. Construction timing has already moved since then. The displays had the Cherry Valley Avenue work running mid-June to mid-August, but the Village notice from June 1 put the current stage through mid-November. So read the table as the planned order of work, not a calendar. MDOT sends drivers to its Mi Drive map for live lane closures, and that map is the best place to see when the winter layout actually starts.
South of 84th: Caledonia's first Michigan lefts
Once the southern half opens as a boulevard, drivers there run into something new for this stretch. MDOT's project page describes the design as a four-lane boulevard with "indirect left-turns," better known as the Michigan left. It also extends the existing boulevard, which now stops north of 76th Street, all the way down to 92nd. That puts a Michigan left-style road in front of the Village's north end, where the old undivided highway used to run.
MDOT's guide to Michigan lefts explains the move. You can't turn left directly at the intersection. Instead:
- Turning left off M-37: go straight through the intersection or turn right, then make a U-turn at the median crossover and come back to your street.
- Turning left onto M-37 from a side road: turn right onto the boulevard, move over to the left lane, and U-turn at the crossover to head the way you want to go.
The crossovers are just one piece. The project also adds new traffic signals at 92nd, 84th and 76th streets, plus another at 84th Street and Cherry Valley Avenue. Next season the 76th Street signal will sit inside the work zone. This winter, though, the boulevard's south half runs between two of the new intersections, 92nd and 84th.
The winter drawing has one more detail for northbound drivers. It marks "drop right lane at 84th Street," which is where the four finished lanes narrow back into the temporary section heading north. If you're northbound near 84th, plan on a merge there.
There's also a change for people on foot or bike. MDOT's cross-section of the winter boulevard south of 84th shows a 10-foot path, and the finished project includes a new multi-use path on the west side of M-37 at 84th Street. Before construction, MDOT's November 2025 meeting notice said the trail on the east side of M-37 and Cherry Valley between 92nd and 84th would move east and stay closed during construction, with no alternate route.
North of 84th: two lanes until next fall
Between 84th and 76th, the winter plan keeps the setup drivers have dealt with since summer. MDOT's drawing for that segment shows one temporary southbound lane and one temporary northbound lane on the new east side. The old roadway is marked closed, with the note "local access maintained off existing M-37 to residential and commercial driveways."
That note matters if you're headed to a business north of 84th. Its driveway may connect to the old pavement, not the new lanes. Once spring arrives, Stage 5 keeps traffic in those same temporary lanes while crews build the west side of M-37 and the west sides of local roads between 84th and 76th. MDOT's February 26 project release puts the estimated finish at mid-September 2027, and FOX 17 reported the same date. In other words, the northern half spends another full construction season as a work zone after the southern half opens.
Where your regular stops land on the split
Taken as a whole, the corridor is a single project. Your errands, though, sit on one side of 84th or the other.
- Kent District Library, Caledonia Branch, 6260 92nd St SE, and Caledonia Community Green, 6290 92nd St SE, with its amphitheater, dog park, nature trail and pickleball courts. You reach both from the 92nd Street end, which is the southern half the plan opens as boulevard this winter. Community Green is also home to the Tuesday concert series we covered in our late-summer Caledonia guide.
- Comodo Motors, 8325 Broadmoor Ave, sits on the corridor near the 84th Street split. When the project started, owner Jordan Baker told WOOD TV that drivers on the congested corridor had already been "diverting away from us."
- Mel Trotter's Caledonia thrift store, 9377 Cherry Valley Ave, is off the highway on Cherry Valley. In WZZM's coverage of the early work, a township resident who works at the store said she hoped the new road would help local businesses.
In that same WOOD TV story, Paradise Pizza owner Travis Wisner-Todd took the longer view. "Impact-wise, I think it will help more than it hurts," he said. Under the winter plan, the boulevard's southern half is the first stretch where a driver can see what he was describing.
The rest of Caledonia's November and December
The road isn't the only seasonal change in town. On October 19 the Village announced that leaf-vacuum service starts the last week of October and runs through mid-to-late November, weather permitting. Pickup is Monday and Tuesday in the Downtown Village and Wednesday and Thursday in Glen Valley. The Village asks residents to rake leaves into the strip between sidewalk and curb, close to the curb but out of the gutter. Your leaves and the M-37 lane change are on roughly the same timeline this month.
After that, the Village calendar has Christmas in Caledonia on Saturday, December 5, at 4 p.m. The 2026 listing gives the date and time but hasn't posted the evening's lineup yet, so check the Village page before you go.
Spring brings another project closer to downtown. Kinsey Street improvements from Maple Street to 100th Street are in design now, with construction expected in Spring 2027. The proposed work includes resurfacing, drainage and sewer extensions. That means Stage 5 on M-37 north of 84th and the Kinsey Street work could overlap during the same months next year.
For a closer look at the town around these corridors, our Caledonia neighborhood page is a good place to start.
When a road changes this much, people start asking how it affects the homes and businesses along it. If you live near Broadmoor and want to talk about what the new boulevard means for your street, Kristina L Tanner would love to hear from you. Let's Connect.
