The Massachusetts Department of Transportation announced Monday its award of $725,418 in Shared Winter Streets and Spaces program grants for five cities in Central Massachusetts to take initiative on challenges during the winter months.
New Bedford Getting $224K Grant for Downtown Improvements
NEW BEDFORD New Bedford is receiving just over $224,000 in funding to help bring people back to the downtown area as the COVID-19 pandemic hopefully continues to wane.
The funding comes from the Baker-Polito Administration’s Shared Winter Streets and Spaces program, which doled out $2.8 million in the fourth round of funding to 17 municipalities.
Senator Mark Montigny worked to secure the funding for New Bedford in the amount of $224,224 to help bolster downtown dining, shopping, and arts and cultural programming. The money will be used to install lighting, wayfinding, and other placemaking elements in order to encourage a return to downtown.
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The shared use path will improve pedestrian and bicycle safety along Route 7/Stockbridge Road, link two community centers, and complete the last link of a 2.5-mile loop of the Fountain Pond State Park/Three Mile Hill trail system. The Shared Winter Streets and Spaces program provides grants as small as $5,000 and as large as $500,000 for municipalities to quickly launch changes for safer walking, biking, public transit, recreation, commerce, and civic activities. These improvements can be intentionally temporary or can be pilots of potentially permanent changes. MassDOT is particularly focused on projects that respond to the current public health crisis and provide safe mobility for children, for elders, to public transportation, and to open space and parks.
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