The City of Monmouth has received a $1.5 million RISE Implementation Grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, with a $501,549 local match from the Monmouth Downtown TIF District for the Streetscape Project in the 200 block of both North and South Main Street. City Administrator Lew Steinbrecher reports this portion of streetscape work is currently in the design phase:
“That project is currently in design. We would hope to have some concepts to present publicly, at least by early fall, but we probably won’t bid that out until the wintertime, so the actual streetscape improvements won’t begin until 2027. In the meantime, we actually have some underground work that needs to be done,” says Steinbrecher.
“On North Main Street, between Archer and Boston Avenues, we have about $110,000 of costs that we need to incur to replace the water main, so that will be undertaken using Water Fund money. Then on the 200 block of South Main Street, we have a new sewer manhole that needs to be installed in there and then we have some repair and lining to do with the sanitary sewer that runs underground. That is about a $155,000 project that will be paid for out of the Downtown TIF Fund,” Steinbrecher adds.
