The Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency board met on Dec. 10 and voted to begin the process of advertising, negotiating and awarding contracts for engineering services and studies for several projects. The projects include the Monroe-Adams Corridor placemaking project, the Lake Lafayette and St. Marks Regional Linear Park Project and the Midtown Corridor Placemaking project. These engineering services are part of the initial phases of the projects.
The Monroe-Adams Corridor placemaking project will create five improved corridors that will connect South Monroe Street and South Adams Street. The engineering services for this project are estimated to cost between $250,000 and $300,000 and funding is currently available in the project account. This project will create streetscape improvements that may include sidewalks, lighting, signage, landscaping, underground utilities and street parking. The goal of this project is to create safe streets for pedestrians, trial users, cyclists, motorists and improve the appearance and comfort of public streets. The project is estimated to take 12 to 15 months to complete.
The Lake Lafayette and St. Marks Regional Linear Park Project will connect 7,000 acres of public recreational lands east of Capital Circle Southeast. The engineering study is the first step in determining current flood elevations in the region. The study will also assist in determining the best location for future amenities. The engineering study is estimated to cost between $750,000 and $1 million and the funds required are included in the 2021 Blueprint budget. The study will update the existing flood elevations that are currently based on observed data from 1948.
The engineering services for the Blueprint Midtown Corridor Placemaking project will be conducted along Thomasville Road from Monroe Street to Seventh Avenue. The engineering services are estimated to cost between $750,000 and $1 million and the funds necessary to proceed are included in the approved 2021 Blueprint Budget. This project will result in an improved Midtown commercial corridor with expanded pedestrian walkways, enhanced lighting, landscaping, safety enhancements and other streetscaping improvements. The engineering services for this project are estimated to take approximately 18 months to complete.
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I wonder how revenue receipts look for Leon County and the City of Tallahassee. Dismal, I imagine and getting worse. Slow down the spending, folks.
Which of our “commissioners” own stock in the engineering companies?
STUDIES? You have been talking about these items for a few YEARS now. You want to improved Midtown commercial corridor with expanded pedestrian walkways, enhanced lighting, landscaping, safety enhancements and other streetscaping improvements? There are already Sidewalks from Monroe to Seventh. There is plenty of Landscaping that looks fine to me, There is only ONE Business that is an eye sore and that is the closed Shell Station at 5 Points. As far as safe Lighting is concerned, I guess you mean like those Gas Flame Street Lights on 5th Avenue beside the Whatabuger are doing a great job. One has not been working for MONTHS. How many $Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars did you spend on digging up 5th Ave. replacing the Road Bed, adding a wide Side Walk with the Red Brick Wal, Parking, 8 Bank Electrical Outlets at every other Parking Space, brick Stamping the new Pavement on only 3/4’s of the Road, Painting the Brick Pattern Warm Water Drinking Fountain’s and Bike Racks? All of which was not needed because I only see a few cars using that road each time I am at Whataburger and it is usually those leaving Whataburger. Stop wasting our Money.
Clean up the trash on the side of the roads.
Clean up the gateway to the airport.
Make the Boulos Corporation landscape their project on Apalachee Parkway. Is this a city or county project?
Clean up the rental car agencies inside at the airport.
Fine lawn care services that spew grass in public roadways as you drive by.
Step up the landscaping on public roadways Tallahassee is one of the worst landscaped cities in Florida. Shame on city and county officials who have neglected this area.
This deterioration of Tallahassee was most noticeable under Gillum and Dailey has done nothing to move forward and it only has further deteriorated.
Please primary the current mayor.
Capital Region Transportation Planning Agency< Florida Hwy Dept and every single Tallahassee City Commissioner & Leon County Commissioner are bound & determined to make Thomasville Road one-way South thru midtown.
They want this for their buds in engineering firms and real estate developers outside the city center. They are all bought & paid for.
For over 60 years the city of Dallas, Texas has craved to expand 6 Lane Mockingbird Lane thru 2 lane Highland Park near the center of Dallas. Highland Park has always resisted up to this day. By resisting, the value of HP homes have increased 1000%.
Why hasn’t anyone published anything about the shameful 3-minute speaking restriction the new Blueprint chair hastily enacted?
These people are out of control with our sales tax dollars. NE Gateway, Airport Gateway and FSU Convention Center are all ongoing travesties. Do the puff pieces they pay you for, but let’s have something real now and again too.
Leave so called ‘Midtown’ alone. Before it was deemed ‘Midtown’ it did just fine without our gov. interfering…at least in the 63 years I have lived there.