Improvements For Downtown Daphne Main Street

Plans are being prepared for a Main Street improvement program for Downtown Daphne, Gulf Coast Media reported. The Daphne City Council has given initial approval to an ordinance to pay $848,525 to Jade Consulting of Fairhope for engineering services for the first phase of the Main Street Revitalization Plan. The plan includes moving utilities underground and adding on-street parking and a center lane to Main Street. Mayor Robin Lejeune said the hope is to entice more business downtown with the parking improvements, sidewalks on both sides all the way down Main Street and landscaping. Some of the improvements will be similar to work done in Downtown Fairhope engineered by Jade. Initial work approved includes civil design and construction documentation preparation for the phase of improvements extending from Potters Mill Avenue to Lott Park. The project is to take up to two years to complete.