Scottsville's "Main Street Makeover" will be completed very soon. Even though bids came in high for the town's streetscape project, Chris Dumler, an Albemarle County supervisor, says it will be finished by November 2012.
The $700,000 project will widen sidewalks, improve lighting, reroute sewer pipes, and spruce up landscaping along Main Street. Dumler said the new look will "create sort of a vibrant booming downtown economic business district."
Scottsville Town Council is set to meet to decide how to tackle bids that came in over budget by $50,000. Dumler said the council needs to discuss what they want the scope of work to be. Scottsville Town Council will decide if they want the streetscape to be like they originally planned, or if they find extra money to pay for it.
Some feel this set back will hold up construction much like the first phase that updated Valley Street in 2007.
Susan Lozano lives in Scottsville and said, "The other one took a very long time and there was a lot of dust everywhere so it made it hard to park in town."
But Dumler maintains that the project will be completed on time in November 2012.
He added, "I expect and anticipate that the problems that plagued the first one will not come up again."
People are anxious to see what this new look will bring the town. Lozano said, "It will make Scottsville a quaint nice town to visit that has charm."
Scottsville Town Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at Victory Hall to discuss the last scope of this project.
