County details road fixes for Advanced Manufacturing District and $80M legacy-trails push
Summary
Planning staff described steps to make a premier Advanced Manufacturing District site shovel-ready — including federal designation of the access road and pursuit of grant matches — and reported the Legacy Trails program is about half-funded with roughly $40M committed of an $80M goal.
Derek from county planning briefed commissioners on two infrastructure-led economic-development efforts: improving the road into the Advanced Manufacturing District in Mundy Township so it can carry truck traffic and accelerating the Legacy Trails program.
He said the county convened local partners, obtained state technical-assistance for grant-writing and is pursuing federal and state matching funds to finance roadway engineering and construction. Derek said the county sought and received technical assistance, has letters of support from partners, and is waiting to hear on several congressional grant applications including a roughly $1,000,000 request for preliminary engineering. On trails, Derek summarized an $80,000,000 build-out plan with about $25,000,000 committed from a major local foundation and about $15,000,000 from state and federal sources — roughly half of the estimated total — and called for coordinated marketing and larger construction segments to accelerate progress.
Commissioners asked staff to provide further analysis of expected economic returns and to convene local units to align resources and reduce duplication; several asked for more housing and brownfield-rehab focus as complementary strategies.
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