The city is eyeing state support for three projects designed to improve public access to developing areas of the North Side, East End and Squirrel Hill.
At a meeting Tuesday, the Urban Redevelopment Authority's board will consider applications to PennDOT for $2.4 million, including $1 million to help build a key pedestrian bridge connecting East Liberty and Shadyside in the vicinity of the Whole Foods store that anchors the burgeoning EastSide commercial project
An additional $1.1 million would go for improvement to two North Side underpasses at Sandusky and Anderson streets.
Officials plan to seek $300,000 more to study transportation connections at the Summerset at Frick Park residential development, which spans the neighborhoods of Squirrel Hill and Swisshelm Park.
The 87-foot Eastside Pedestrian Bridge would span the East Busway to give shoppers quick access from Ellsworth Avenue in Shadyside to Eastside -- a $29 million Mosites Co. project that has attracted Starbucks, Borders and Eva Szabo Spa as well as Whole Foods to once-downtrodden East Liberty.
More recently, officials have disclosed plans for a new Target store to be built in the neighborhood.
Costs for the bridge are estimated at $2 million, including $1 million already allocated from the state's Hometown Streets program.
Improvements to North Shore underpasses will "enhance local networks connecting the North Side to Downtown and the entertainment complexes on the North Shore," the URA said.
The $3 million project would include improvements to the two railroad bridges abutments and concrete fascias, installation of sidewalks, curb, and roadway lighting, sidewalk canopies, landscaping, wall demolition and backfill.
The state planning grant for the Summerset at Frick Park development would be used to study transportation connections between the first two phases of the residential community and the planned third phase. Phase one is complete and phase two is under way.
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