Grant funding walkway improvements around Amhert’s Bangs Center
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Published: 3/5/2021 10:07:21 AM
AMHERST Access to the John P. Musante Health Center will be improved and new outdoor gathering spots on Boltwood Walk are being created using money received from the state.
A $192,600 grant from the Department of Transportation’s Winter Shared Streets and Spaces Program is funding the projects around the Bangs Community Center, which houses the Amherst Senior Center and the Boltwood parking garage.
Town Manager Paul Bockelman said Tuesday that plans in development for several years by the Planning Department would create a new ramp and walkway system, compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, that will bring those who park on the ground level of the parking garage to the health center, on the lower level of the Bangs.