Crescent City accepts $2 million Mellon grant for Beachfront Park, approves litho-mosaic contract

Crescent City — The City Council voted to accept a $2,000,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand the Tallahua Cultural Trail and related Beachfront Park improvements and approved a professional-services contract to fabricate and install litho-mosaic public-art elements integral to the trail and the Cultural Center.

City staff described the Mellon funding as the final major grant needed to complete a larger master plan of interpretive nodes and site work extending along the California Coastal Trail to Battery Point. “This first item is to accept the Mellon grant, in the amount of $2,000,000,” a city staff member told the council during a presentation that also reviewed prior grants and design work.

The grant will pay for additional interpretive stations that were not fully funded by earlier awards, staff said. The council heard that a separate Arts and Parks grant of roughly $300,000 is funding several interpretive…