The residents of the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, passed a Local Option Sales Tax to fund roadway rehabilitation projects on the city’s deteriorating street network. Design of the prioritized projects, which were dubbed Paving for Progress, was to begin immedietly with construction occuring in the summer of 2014. 

Under a tight schedule, McClure took on a large Paving for Progress rehabilitation project from execution of the engineering agreement in March 2014 to Functional Design approval on April 24, 2014, to final plans in early June 2014.