April 14th, 2017 by WCBC Radio

There will be a slight delay in finding a firm to perform the engineering and design plan for the downtown mall.   The city began exploring plans in 2015 to open the downtown pedestrian mall to vehicular and bicycle traffic.  After including public input, a plan to place roads between Mechanic and Liberty streets and Centre and George streets garnered the most interest. During Thursday’s meeting of the Downtown Development Commission- chairperson Sandi Saville said she learned recently that a request for proposals will need to be re-done to make some changes in the language to accommodate the State Highway Administration…