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Council hears $366,000 streetscape award, administrator outlines grants for downtown work
Summary
Administrator Lucas Darling told the council Lake County intends to award $366,000 for Streetscape Phase 3 to replace sidewalks and street lights; he also reported on several grant applications and a pending Opportunity Zone 2.0 designation request.
Administrator Lucas Darling told the council the Lake County Community Development Department intends to award $366,000 to the village for Streetscape Phase 3 to replace sidewalks and street lights in the downtown corridor.
Darling said the formal announcement will come this fall and noted the project is expected to be the final streetscape phase. He also reported the village did not receive a FEMA BRIC grant for design work on the Prospect Street hillside (an application for roughly $153,000), and that the village has pending applications to the National Coastal Resilience Fund and for a $60,000 coastal management assistance grant. Darling said the village submitted itself to the Ohio Opportunity Zone 2.0 program; inclusion in the governor's submittal to the U.S. Treasury Department would create a 10-year opportunity zone designation if approved in September.
"They intend to award $366,000 to the village for the streetscape phase 3," Darling said. "This will replace sidewalks and street lights in the 200 [block]." The council thanked staff for securing the award and asked that project schedules be published to the village website once contractor dates are confirmed.
The administrator also reported that 625 East Street has been boarded up and that the Lake County Land Bank received a $60,000 ODOD grant for asbestos surveying and a phase-2 environmental assessment to move demolition planning forward. Council members said they expect further updates at the next meeting.
