FOLEY – A walkway that will include columns and canopy lights will link the Foley pedestrian bridge with City Hall and other downtown features.
Plans for the project through Heritage Park and along the extension being constructed on East Jessamine Street will link the street and park with North Cypress Street.
The Foley City Council voted to approve the improvements at Heritage Park.
Mayor Ralph Hellmich said the project will continue efforts to improve downtown as a location for strolling and recreation.
“We will tie it into the Jessamine Avenue project that is going to bid,” Hellmich said. “That will repave East Jasmine Avenue. It will have sidewalks, and it will tie in City Hall all the way over to the middle school. It will also upgrade our Heritage Park with new electrical connections, lighting, including lights in the trees.”
The project will also include new pavers, entry walls and columns on the east side of Heritage Park. The work will complement the features on the west side of the park near the Centennial Clock tower.
As part of the project, crews will remove the wooden light poles now in place and install black double galleon lights similar to the lighting on the north end of the park.
“This will continue the symmetry of the park to the north, south, east and west,” Hellmich said. “This would carry that over to Jessamine and all the way over to City Hall.”