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The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has approved the City of Livingston for sidewalk grant funding.
Downtown Revitalization Committee Chair Ray Evans said the city will receive nearly $739,000 to improve sidewalk in the downtown area.
“That grant will replace and rebuild all the sidewalks along Main Street and Broad Street from the courthouse square north to the Chamber of Commerce,” Evans said. “The community, through various grants and through their own funds, have invested well over $2 million in the last five or six years in the central businesses district area. This is just an opportunity to continue that a block or two off the square.”
Evans said the project has already been added to the state’s website for consulting firms with the selection process beginning as early as Monday.
“We will receive letters of interest Feb. 11. We’ll make shortlist and then ask for full proposals from what we’ll consider the best three firms,” Evans said. “Those proposals would be due back March 1, and in the committee’s selection process, we would hope to have a firm selected by March 8.”
Evans said the project could begin as early as this fall once a firm is selected and they complete the design phase.
“We’ll have to go through the design process, which probably won’t start until April,” Evans said. “I’m guessing right now that we’re probably in a September or October time period before construction would start. But it won’t take very long to construct.”
The multimodal grant from TDOT requires a five-percent match from the city, which would be just under $37,000.
