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Cary board backs moving ahead with shade structures for Spring Street ‘Alfresco Alley’
Summary
Consultants presented permanent streetscape and seasonal alfresco concepts for Spring Street; the board directed staff to pursue shade structures, asked for updated, itemized costs and emphasized maintenance, storage and staging to limit business disruption.
Consultants from MKSK presented the village board on Jan. 27 with permanent streetscape upgrades and seasonal programming concepts for Spring Street — the village’s Alfresco Alley — and trustees signaled support for moving forward with overhead shade structures.
Brett Bridal, landscape architect and principal in charge at MKSK, said the team conducted robust outreach (more than 374 online survey responses and an open house) and proposed using the same material palette as nearby Main Street, adding pavers, trees, planters and benches to make Spring Street feel cohesive with the downtown. ‘‘The total has increased to about over 800,000,’’ Bridal said when summarizing the opinion of…
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