MIDDLETOWN – In a matter
of a couple of weeks, the committee formulating the proposed spending
plan for the $10 million Middletown Downtown Revitalization Initiative
will be submitted to the state for its approval.
Once that is done, Mayor Joseph DeStefano said work on projects should
begin immediately.
“The governor and his office have emphasized with each community
that everything must be ready to go with some of these projects immediately
and we are ready with the accelerator program, we are ready with the Woolworth’s
project, we are ready with the Erie Way project, and we will be ready
very quickly with the streetscape and the parking lot projects downtown,”
he told the common council Tuesday evening.
The city will not be able to work on all of the proposed projects because
they total over $14 million.
A total of 10 cities across the state have been awarded $10 million each
for revitalization. Middletown was the only one community to receive this
grant in the Hudson Valley-Catskill region.
