Painesville City officials are planning projects on East Washington Street, Roosevelt Drive and the streetscape around South Park Place in 2024. City Council voted to advertise bids for all three projects at its Jan. 16 meeting. The city plans to resurface the asphalt on all of East Washington Street and Roosevelt Drive. Both streets received […]
available, more people were interested in opening businesses in downtown. then i started working on streetscape projects. i m brian spec, the founder of bad boys bistro. i ve been here for four years. have you seen the community chains since you ve been here. prior to some of the stuff getting done here, it was friday nights, one or two cars. now the streets are full. what did the sidewalks look like before they were repaired? terrible. like they were uneven? uneven, cracks, in disarray. i was literally in the visitors bureau one day and said where is downtown bedford? oh, boy, this is not good. we ve gotten over $1.3 million that we ve put back into our downtown and we redid sidewalks, put in pedestrian light, welcome banners, signage. fixing the sidewalk is great but can it really change everything? do those little things really change everything? they do. everything that happens in a small community like this definitely helps business in every way. we do a lo