Aero Park Drive closes Thursday at Parsons Road for construction work
Aero Park Drive’s 2400 block closed at Parsons Road for one day, with access kept open for local businesses and homes and drivers sent to Three Mile Road.
The 2400 block of Aero Park Drive at Parsons Road closed at 8 a.m. Thursday for construction, a one-day shutdown in a corridor that carries business traffic, employee commutes and local residential access in Traverse City. Crews were expected to finish by the end of the day.
Access to all local business and residential entrances was expected to remain open during the work, limiting the worst of the disruption for companies and nearby homes. Even so, drivers were advised to use Three Mile Road to reach the area, a reminder that a short closure can still affect delivery routes, customer visits and shift changes in the city’s industrial and airport-adjacent corridor.
The project did not spell out the exact construction underway, but the closure was narrowly targeted at the Parsons Road intersection rather than the full Aero Park Drive corridor. That kind of limited footprint matters in a part of Grand Traverse County where traffic patterns already shift around airport access, business parks and summer road work.
Parsons Road has been under heavier construction pressure before. In 2021, the City of Traverse City and the Michigan Department of Transportation closed Parsons Road to through traffic for two months while crews built a new roundabout at Parsons and Airport Access. The city’s Parsons Road Roundabout Project page says that work was completed and Parsons was open to vehicular traffic by June 18, 2021.
The same corridor has kept drawing detours and lane shifts. In April 2026, Three Mile Road traffic was detoured for several weeks at Parsons and Airport Access while the state spent $1.9 million redesigning the Three Mile and US-31 intersection. Taken together, those projects show that the Parsons Road area remains one of Traverse City’s most active infrastructure zones, where even a one-day closure on Aero Park Drive can ripple through business access and commuter travel.
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