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Emergency road closure on SW 24th Avenue

November 12, 2025
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Press release from Alachua County

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Due to a minor sinkhole opening, the Alachua County Public Works Department announced an emergency road closure on SW 24th Avenue between SW 91st Street and SW 87th Way.

Drivers will be detoured around the area using SW 87th Way to SW 91st Street. Residents of the Shannon Woods subdivision, exiting the neighborhood using SW 88th Street, will only be able to go east on SW 24th Avenue.

Drivers should use caution, stay alert and focused, follow the designated detour signs, and maintain a safe speed and following distance when traveling through the detour. Drivers should expect delays and plan ahead during this construction.

  • The road reopened not long ago after all of that ongoing work there. Also the roundabout closure on School house road has people twisted around. Is that a sinkhole problem as well?

  • I suspect that all of the digging they did over there, putting in new infrastructure, disrupted more limerock, which caused a domino effect, resulting in the sinkhole. I wouldn’t be surprised if more open up as well. That area was littered with sinkholes after that publix plaza was built.

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