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Frankford Streetscaping Ready to Break Ground
October 28, 2009 08:01 PM
Last night, neighbors from the 1700 to the 2300 blocks of Frankford Avenue gathered at Circle of Hope for an important community meeting. They were briefed on the details of a million dollar PennDOT project, years in the making, that was about to break ground. The location: their own doorsteps.
After years of community planning phases and approval letters being sent between NKCDC, PennDOT and the City of Philadelphia, street improvement work on Frankford Avenue was finally put out to bid several months ago. A contractor, L.C. Costa Construction Inc, of Warminster, PA was the low bidder with a 1.15 million dollar price tag for the half-mile zone’s street work. Pending a final commencement order from PennDOT, contractors could begin work as early as the first half of November, and no later than early December.
Details after the jump…
Work will encompass near-total replacement of sidewalks and curbs from Palmer to York Street. Approximately 39 new street trees, of six different species, will be planted to beautify the corridor. New benches will be installed, and BigBelly trash cans, like those recently installed in Center City, will be placed on most intersections. These solar-powered, compacting trash bins have separate receptacles for recycling, require emptying far less frequently than conventional wirebasket trash cans. ...