INNISFAIL – The first of four phases to beautify the town’s main east entrance is almost done.
The project, which is expected to cost almost $500,000 when fully completed, began on July 29 with a $170,000 investment to enhance the one-way North Service Road, located just southeast of the intersection of Highway 2A and 50th Street.
“It’s almost done. The trees are already done. It actually looks pretty good now,” said Steven Kennedy, the town’s director of operational services.
Enhancements also include a pedestrian walkway, as well as paving and line painting for the road, he said.
“It’s a one-way right now. We are going to narrow it and do a lot of paint lines, and that is where the pedestrian walkway will go,” he said, adding he is hoping this phase of the project, which is being done by Red Deer’s Border Paving, will be completed by the end of the last week of August.
Phase 2 of the project, which has a budget of $106,680, for the north side of 50th Street, will come back to council for the 2021 budget, he said.
If approved by council that phase is expected to start and be completed sometime next year.
That phase will include curved planter beds and additional landscaping.
The vision for Phase 3 is to see the south side of Main Street beautified with $89,160 worth of new landscaping.
The fourth and final phase, which is called ‘Entrance Letters’, has an estimated total budget of $124,800. It calls for more landscaping, and the installation of town letters that is expected to cost $81,000.
Town council approved the four-phase project last December.
