State Street update: City, Crestline host status meeting on Wednesday

Dust, pedestrian access, and signage issues, and the potential of summer street work, are among the topics expected to be addressed on Wednesday in a morning meeting about the downtown Urban Renewal Project.

The community is invited to attend the meeting, at 8 a.m. at City Hall, Second and State streets.

City Public Works and representatives of the contractor, Crestline Construction, will give a project status update and listen to concerns, according to Gary Lindemyer, project inspector with public works.

The city will provide information on important dates and on the planned construction of public restrooms at Third and State streets.

Work will start soon on the restrooms, for which the city has budgeted $220,000 from the Urban Renewal budget.

The city and contractor will also discuss the possibility of continuing sidewalk work through the summer.

The way it is now, we wont finish the curb and gutters west to Sixth Street, by June 1, the contractual deadline completing the work, Lindemeyer said.

The contractor is only allowed to have minimal activity during the summer months, and we have always interpreted minimal activity to include curb and gutter and doing sidewalk work, but we want to make sure we get input from the businesses that are affected before we continue that work, Lindemyer said.

No streets would be closed, and were looking at working on a block at a time and only one side of the street at a time, during summer curb and gutter work, he said.

The alternative is to delay until after Labor Day the installation of the curbs, gutters and sidewalks from Third to Sixth.

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State Street update: City, Crestline host status meeting on Wednesday