Streetscape Project
This long awaited project, scheduled for completion Spring 2010, funded through CDBG-R Stimulus Funds, will produce street beautification enhancements that include large flower pots, new banners and benches, a traffic pattern change to one eastbound lane and one westbound lane for vehicular traffic with turn lanes at Williams and Broadway. Several bump outs are installed to add width to the sidewalks while also creating space for on street parking.
Other amenities in the streetscape enhancements will include a major public art sculpture, inspired by the poem A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar titled Jump Back Honey Jump Back, created by Willis ‘Bing’ Davis. The Walk Of Fame Stones commemorating over 120 individuals will be reinstalled and on display for walking tours. To cap things off the street is being repaved and the sidewalks replaced and tinted, making the project result in a ‘vibrant, urban, walkable community of innovation, creativity and collaboration where diverse families, businesses, neighbors and visitors live, work, recreate and learn together as a testimony to the historic legacy of the Wright Brothers and Paul Laurence Dunbar’.
