Danville News: Road Repairs on Williams and Cleveland, Demolitions, and Coffee

The Danville City Council Public Works Committee has passed along plans to the full Council for some road repair projects; including Williams Street from Bowman to State Street, and Cleveland Avenue from Bowman to State Street.  Following the Tuesday (Feb 13th) evening meeting, City Engineer Sam Cole said that both construction projects will be done this year; with Cleveland’s costing about $950,000; and Williams, as it’s a wider road, coming in at about $1.7 million.

Cole says work on Williams could start as early as March.  Cleveland, however, will start later in the year.  Cole says there’s more going on between Bowman and State on Cleveland than just road work.  For example, Aqua Illinois has some plans, which may be done in the summer; then the construction could really pick up.

AUDIO: Aqua’s looking at investing money out in that area and doing water main upgrades.  So, we’re trying to time our construction to accommodate what they’re doing.  Hopefully there’s an all around general improvement to that area.  You should have water improvements on behalf of Aqua, and road improvements on behalf of the city.  

Danville City Engineer Sam Cole (second from left) explains road repair plans for Williams Street and Cleveland Avenue.  Also during the Public Works meeting, Community Development Administrator Logan Cronk (second from right) explained the city’s dilapidated housing demolition plans from a received $399,000 grant.

Meanwhile, Community Development Administrator Logan Cronk mentioned that an already received grant should allow Danville to demolish perhaps up to about 28 dilapidated houses this year.  He says, some asbestos testing is being done on some of the contending old houses in town.   And if any of it is there, the structure qualifies for this grant.

AUDIO: (It’s the) Illinois Housing and Development Authority Stronger Communities Program.  And the City of Danville was awarded $399,000.  It’s been about six months ago; we applied for it around a year ago.  We believe we can get around 28 properties, depending on how the asbestos surveys come back.

Also, Cronk confirmed that the new business going in at the old A&W site on North Vermilion is indeed a Scooter’s Coffee.  He says when you drive by, you’ll see that the sticks are in the ground; and it could all be ready to go just a few months down the road.