Sydney Cromwell
Oak Grove Road paving and lighting project
The blue sections of Oak Grove Road are scheduled for repaving this summer. The small red dots on the north and south sides of the street denote where new streetlights will be installed.
In the midst of Monday's committee meetings, the finance committee took a break to hold a bid opening for the West Homewood Revitalization project's first phase.
Ward 2 Representative Fred Hawkins said the committee received three bids for the project, which involves redesigning the section of Oak Grove Road between Oxmoor Road and Hall Avenue. The three bidders were Safford Building Company, Gillespie Construction Company and Bulls Construction Group, Engineering, Planning and Zoning Department Head Jim Wyatt said.
Bulls Construction won with a total bid of $363,054, under the amount the city originally budgeted. Of that bid, $45,591 will go toward paving Oak Grove Road, and the remaining $317,463 will cover the installation of landscaping, sidewalks, curbs, crosswalks and acorn-shaped streetlights.
The project was approved by the city council in April and was supposed to be completed over the summer, but has been delayed.
Related to this project, the finance committee also decided to drop an agenda item to provide incentives to Oak and Raleigh, a deli and meat market planned to open on the corner of Oak Grove Road and Raleigh Avenue. The committee could not find a way to provide tax abatement incentives. Instead, committee members are looking at ways to use the unspent money from the revitalization project to provide and maintain extra parking behind Oak and Raleigh's future building.
According to the Oak and Raleigh Facebook page, owners Morgan, Molly and Tyler Duncan are hoping to open in August.
The bids for the revitalization project have been sent to the full council for consideration.
