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The City of Boyne City and Boyne City Main Street program are organizing the meeting to discuss phase two of the downtown infrastructure project, which includes Lake Street from Main Street to Water Street. Phase one of the project was completed last fall.

Representatives from the city, engineering firm Capital Consultants, and H&D Inc., the contractor, will discuss details of the construction and scheduling as well as strategies for trying to minimize the impact of construction on downtown businesses.

Construction of phase two will begin as soon as weather allows and will end by the end of May. Phase three, reconstruction of Water Street from Lake to East streets, will begin after Labor Day and is expected to be completed by November. The first phase of the downtown infrastructure project started on Front Street near Peninsula Beach and continued to the intersection of Lake and Main streets. It was completed last November.

The downtown infrastructure project includes sewer, water and storm line replacements and upgrades, street reconstruction, and new streetscape elements. The nearly $2 million project is funded in part by a $1 million grant awarded last year by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

In addition to the downtown infrastructure project, street construction projects in Boyne City during the upcoming construction season include State Street from the intersection of East Street to Park Street. This is a Michigan Department of Transportation project and will include sewer, water and storm line replacement and street reconstruction.

Another project under development calls for the improvement of Front Street from Pleasant Avenue north to just past West Pine Street, which was the southern end of last fallÕs phase of the Downtown Improvement Project. This project is currently under design with a goal of having the project bid and under construction also in the spring of 2007

A fourth project involves Front Street in downtown Boyne City from Main Street to Water Street and a portion of South Lake Street from Main Street north to the Boyne River. It will involve sewer, water and storm line replacement, street reconstruction and new streetscape elements. The project also proposes a new underground storm water filtration system in Sunset Park to treat storm water before it reaches either the Boyne River or Lake Charlevoix. Of the estimated $1.2 million project cost, the city received a $631,000 federal matching grant. Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin in June with work continuing through the summer.

For information on the Downtown Infrastructure Improvements Project please contact City of Boyne City Executive Assistant Barb Brooks at 231-582-0338 or via e-mail at bbrooks@boyne city.com.