Tag Archives: North Main Street

Stimulus application includes Assembly Street

By adam beam | Published: June 30, 2009
Ray LaHood, the U.S. secretary of transportation, has $1.5 billion to give out as part of the TIGER surface transportation grant program, which is part of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. Columbia Mayor Bob Coble doesn’t think South Carolina will get more than the minimum grant amount — $20 million — so he is submitting [...]
Posted in Columbia city government | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

Dog owners want park in North Columbia

By adam beam | Published: April 22, 2009
Some North Columbia dog owners feel the area’s dog parks are too far away. So they’ve made their own dog park at the Earlewood park baseball fields. As city officials put it, this conflicts with the park’s more traditional uses (read: players stepping in dog poop.) To fix the problem, the dog owners have formed a [...]
Posted in Columbia city government | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

North Main Street gets more money

By adam beam | Published: April 17, 2009
Columbia’s North Main Street project got an extra $2.5 million in stimulus money today from DOT Commissioner Marvin Stevenson. The extra money puts the project’s total at $9 million, which is enough to renovate North Main Street from Fairfield Road to Anthony Street, Mayor Bob Coble said. Originally, the project had $6.5 million in stimulus money from [...]
Posted in Columbia city government | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

List of Columbia's stimulus money

By adam beam | Published: April 14, 2009
Here’s a breakdown of Columbia federal stimulus money to date: $597,483 for police equipment $342,783 for affordable housing $524,731 for homeless prevention $4,938,350 for buying and renovating foreclosed homes $5,259,694 for construction and management of public housing $1,951,043 for rental subsidies for poor people $5,346,374 for new buses and equipment $7,000,000 for redoing the intersection at N.  Main Street and Fairfield Road (That’s [...]
Posted in Columbia city government | Also tagged | 3 Comments

Another $500,000 in stimulus money for North Main Street

By adam beam | Published: April 2, 2009
If you’ve been following our coverage of the federal stimulus money, you already know about the $6.5 million Columbia received for its North Main Street project. You can bump that number up to $7 million as of today, according to Mayor Bob Coble. The extra $500,000 comes from Marvin Stevenson, the state Department of Transportation commissioner for [...]
Posted in Columbia city government | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment