City accepts grant to fix Heritage Block parking area
NORWICH – The Norwich Common Council has agreed to a state grant that city officials say will help breathe new life into a dilapidated part of downtown.
Council members accepted the $120,000 grant at their regular meeting held earlier this month. Funding, which comes by way of the Empire State Development Corporation, will be used in the city’s Heritage Block restoration project. Specifically, money will be used to redesign and construct the shared parking lot between Mechanic Street and Lackawanna Avenue.
When finished, city officials say the parking area will improve the downtown landscape and, because of the parking lot’s new design and drainage system, it will be more environmentally friendly.
The project has already undergone a New York State environmental quality review, and met review requirements of the State Historic Preservation Office. Funding from the Empire State Development Corporation leverages additional funds the city has already secured from the NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation’s “Green Innovation Grant Program.”
The larger Heritage Block Project has been ongoing since 2013. In addition to a new and improved parking area, the scope of the Heritage Block Project includes assistance to private developers to restore run-down properties at 42 and 44-46 North Broad St., and four buildings on Lackawanna Avenue.
City officials also passed a different resolution in February which approves an additional $8,250 for on-site engineering inspection services with the Chazen Companies, a private engineering and planning firm that was contracted by the city for engineering services pertaining to the Heritage Block Project. That resolution was tabled when it initially went before the Common Council last month.
In April, the city approved entering into an original contract with the Chazen Companies for engineering services for an amount not to exceed $57,100.
Work to the Heritage Block parking area is anticipated to start in the spring and be completed by the end of the year. Meanwhile, renovations are underway at the buildings at 42, 44-46 North Broad St. When finished, the mammoth three-story buildings will have seven newly modeled apartments. And on the ground floor, plans are to open a craft brewer on the left (44-46 N. Broad) and a regional market for local products on the right (42 N. Broad).
Since taking ownership of the buildings in 2013, Hercules Properties LLC has accumulated funding in the form of grants and loans from a number of sources, the most notable being the Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council. In December, 2014, the council disbursed more than $80 million to fund projects throughout New York’s southern tier region. Of the $1.5 million allocated to Chenango County, $904,000 went to the City of Norwich. The city will use $250,000 of that allotment through the NYS Office for Community Renewal for renovation of seven mixed-use buildings in its Broad Street Revitalization project – a project that includes the buildings at 42 and 44-46 N. Broad.
Council members accepted the $120,000 grant at their regular meeting held earlier this month. Funding, which comes by way of the Empire State Development Corporation, will be used in the city’s Heritage Block restoration project. Specifically, money will be used to redesign and construct the shared parking lot between Mechanic Street and Lackawanna Avenue.
When finished, city officials say the parking area will improve the downtown landscape and, because of the parking lot’s new design and drainage system, it will be more environmentally friendly.
The project has already undergone a New York State environmental quality review, and met review requirements of the State Historic Preservation Office. Funding from the Empire State Development Corporation leverages additional funds the city has already secured from the NYS Environmental Facilities Corporation’s “Green Innovation Grant Program.”
The larger Heritage Block Project has been ongoing since 2013. In addition to a new and improved parking area, the scope of the Heritage Block Project includes assistance to private developers to restore run-down properties at 42 and 44-46 North Broad St., and four buildings on Lackawanna Avenue.
City officials also passed a different resolution in February which approves an additional $8,250 for on-site engineering inspection services with the Chazen Companies, a private engineering and planning firm that was contracted by the city for engineering services pertaining to the Heritage Block Project. That resolution was tabled when it initially went before the Common Council last month.
In April, the city approved entering into an original contract with the Chazen Companies for engineering services for an amount not to exceed $57,100.
Work to the Heritage Block parking area is anticipated to start in the spring and be completed by the end of the year. Meanwhile, renovations are underway at the buildings at 42, 44-46 North Broad St. When finished, the mammoth three-story buildings will have seven newly modeled apartments. And on the ground floor, plans are to open a craft brewer on the left (44-46 N. Broad) and a regional market for local products on the right (42 N. Broad).
Since taking ownership of the buildings in 2013, Hercules Properties LLC has accumulated funding in the form of grants and loans from a number of sources, the most notable being the Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council. In December, 2014, the council disbursed more than $80 million to fund projects throughout New York’s southern tier region. Of the $1.5 million allocated to Chenango County, $904,000 went to the City of Norwich. The city will use $250,000 of that allotment through the NYS Office for Community Renewal for renovation of seven mixed-use buildings in its Broad Street Revitalization project – a project that includes the buildings at 42 and 44-46 N. Broad.
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