2006 S.P.L.O.S.T. Updates

FULL PROJECT LIST

· Cave Spring fire station and equipment, $1.2 million.

· Upgrade the Second Avenue levee gates and relocate the Heritage Park access point, $1.955 million.

· Transform the old East Main Elementary School into a youth and teen center to be operated by the Boys and Girls Clubs, $2 million from SPLOST (Total: $2.5 million).

· Add a right turn lane on Turner McCall Boulevard at North Fifth Avenue, $550,000.

· Buy right of way for frontage roads on U.S. 411 to the Bartow County line, $3.3 million.

· Add a lane on North Broad Street at Turner McCall Boulevard, $330,000.

· Build a secondary access road at the rear of the Rome High and Middle school complex, $2.9 million.

· Upgrade the biosolids disposal system at the Rome wastewater treatment plant, $5.2 million.

· Renovate the city-owned U.S. Marine Corps Armory as a recreation headquarters and sports center, $1.6 million.

· Add right turn lanes on Shorter Avenue and Redmond Circle at their intersection, $1.47 million.

· Build Armuchee Connector bridge over the Oostanaula River north of Mount Berry Square mall, $12 million.

· Fire safety package: Build a new training facility for the Rome Fire Department, upgrade three old stations, $910,000.

· Widen the Etowah River bridge on Turner McCall Boulevard, $2 million from SPLOST (Total $4.86 million).

· Renovate the old Oostanaula pump station at Ridge Ferry Park as a river education center, $834,825 from SPLOST (Total: $1 million).

· Add a recreation center at North Floyd Park in Armuchee, $3 million.

· Cave Spring senior and community center — restoration of a historic Georgia School for the Deaf building, $850,000.

· Street, sidewalk and pedestrian safety improvements on the South Broad Street-East Main Street-East 12th Street corridor, $2 million.

· Wolfe Park parking, lighting, restrooms and pavilion in Lindale, $200,000.

· Shannon Park ball fields and community center, $927,000.

· North Rome Swim Center improvements, $530,000.

· Build 12 new tennis courts, $600,000.

· Practice field improvements at 17 sites around the county, $850,000.

· Build a parking deck in the lot of the Historic Floyd County Courthouse for an additional 70 spaces, $1.54 million.

· Town green and interactive fountain on the riverfront next to The Forum, $1.69 million.

· City Hall/Carnegie Building exterior repairs, $1.5 million.

· Work release center for nonviolent inmates, $1.75 million.

· Huffaker Road engineering and right of way, $1.25 million.

 

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