The town options to transform four blocks of Madison Road into a bicycle- and pedestrian-helpful corridor to the Oconee River.
DUBLIN, Ga. — A road in downtown Dublin is about to get a makeover. The city won a $3.3 million grant that will go toward revamping Madison Road.
13WMAZ reporter Jessica Cha went to see what the metropolis strategies to do with the money and read what people today have to say about the challenge.
“It really is very exciting to see the likelihood that these plans that we’ve experienced for so long to basically be turned into a truth,” Dublin Mayor Joshua Kight states.
Kight states the goal of their $3.3 million venture is to beautify downtown and its historic properties.
“Portion of that project is going to set these power lines underground, to increase trees along the road and to improve the general beautification and the walkability of this spot,” he describes.
The metropolis programs to change 4 blocks of Madison Street into a bike- and pedestrian-helpful corridor to the Oconee River.
“In the extended-time period, this undertaking will connect our downtown area to our river place and we have good programs and vicious options to produce an total riverwalk complicated with going for walks trails and other facilities.”
Kight states that they have 24 months to total this job and then they hope it’s going to carry in $10 [million]- to $30 million truly worth of personal expenditure as they have with related renovation jobs.
“This is a thing that we definitely have to have downtown, you know,” Claire Guyton states.
Guyton owns Claire’s U-Neek Boutique on Madison Street. She suggests she’s energized mainly because these projects have assisted her business ahead of.
“Opened up my business 16 decades ago. You could locate a parking location any place on the road, but when these dining establishments arrived to town– and some other businesses around listed here -– you can scarcely find a parking area now. It’s like Dublin is like a massive metropolis in a mini-town,” Guyton clarifies.
Teretha Wright has lived in Dublin her total life. She says this venture will make the avenue safer.
“Folks are out training, going for walks by means of Dublin and we just want it to be attractive and safe!”
Mayor Kight suggests they’re just in the 1st stage of the undertaking and when they finalize how they want the road to look, they’ll immediately start off development. He says they system to maintain meetings for men and women to give enter on the street renovations.
