By TOMMY REZAC
St. Joseph Post
The city of St. Joseph is holding a series of public meetings over the next week to give the general public more information on the RiverBluff Gateway Project.
The city received a $2.5 million grant from the Missouri Department of Economic Development for this project, which will focus on four areas of the city - the Southside centered on King Hill Avenue, the 6th Street Corridor, Downtown and Northside centered on St. Joseph Avenue.
City spokesperson Mary Robertson says this project will encompass several different things.
"Doing some streetscape improvements, doing open space improvements, facades and really an opportunity to have funds available (to residents) to do those repairs they'd like to do, but may not have the funding to do," she explained."
The first public meeting about this project comes up Thursday night at 6 p.m. at Washington Park Library.
The next meeting is Tuesday, June 13th at the Carnegie Library. The third and final meeting is Wednesday, June 14th at the Downtown Library. All of these meetings start at 6 p.m.
Robertson says these meetings are open for anyone to come and learn about the Gateway Project.
"The meetings are available for residents to come and learn more about the project and the scope of the grant application," she said. "How to move forward if they're interested in doing so. The residents have the opportunity to take advantage of this funding to do some cleanup and improvements to the properties in the particular areas."
The Gateway Project itself, Robertson says, is an opportunity to improve this area with more visitors coming to the newly opened River Bluff Trails Park.
"This is an opportunity for us to improve that corridor and to take advantage of those visitors coming in," she said, "and improve the appearance and vitality of St. Joseph is the end goal of what we're doing with this project."
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