The city of ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ has received a $5.25 million federal grant that will help restart a major improvement project for a highly trafficked area of downtown ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´. Specifically, the project, which is estimated to cost $25.5 million overall, will concentrate on improvements along East Main Street from Willow Road to Horning Road and will include changes such as wider sidewalks and shared bike and pedestrian paths.
¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ has worked with the city of ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ and other community partners on improving safety in this area for more than five years, however, recent inflation caused the groups to put those efforts on hold, said ¾Ã¾ÃÎçÒ¹ÐßÐßÓ°ÔºÃâ·Ñ¹Û¿´ City Engineer Jim Bowling.
The new federal grant will get the project back on track, . Improvements will include changing the five-lane road to a three-lane boulevard with three signals, two roundabouts, wider sidewalks and six pedestrian crossings.
the design phase of the project is expected to be complete by 2024 with the three-year construction project beginning in 2025.
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Construction of Crawford Hall along East Main Street.