Saturday, March 29, 2008
YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control hired an Austintown company to improve a section of one of the busiest downtown streets and to increase parking on and around it.
The board on Friday approved a $474,684 contract with Parella-Pannunzio for work on West Federal Street between Fifth Avenue and Phelps Street.
About 70 percent of the project’s cost comes from the state.
The work is expected to start in 30 days and take up to 120 days.
The project includes removing about 25 percent of the medians and nine of the 22 trees in those medians.
There are 42 parallel parking spots along that area of West Federal Street.
When the project is done, there will be 22 diagonal parking spaces, 30 parallel spots and 11 handicapped spaces.
The project also includes 16 diagonal spaces on the west side of Symphony Place, formerly Chestnut Street, between West Federal Street and Commerce Street, and seven diagonal spaces on the east of Vindicator Square, south of West Federal Street.
West Federal Street between Fifth Avenue and Phelps Street will be paved — something that hasn’t been done in about 20 years.
Improvements will be made to catch basins and storm sewers on that stretch of the street and there will be some electrical upgrading.