Monrovia Awarded $995,000 Grant for Open Space Development Near Gold Line Station
Posted December 8, 2010
MONROVIA- The City of Monrovia has been awarded a $995,000 Urban Greening Grant from the State of California's Strategic Growth Council.
The grant is funded through Proposition 84 funds ("Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006") and will be used to design and construct a new multi-use open space within the planed Station Square Transit Village development, along with a multi-use trail along the Gold Line railway frontage as it moves through Monrovia.
Station Square is a mixed residential and commercial development planned to coincide with the arrival of the Gold Line light rail system in Monrovia about 2014. The first phase of the development would be on a 25-acre site adjacent to the rail station. Also included in the plan are major public improvements to streets and sidewalks in the immediate neighborhood and rehabilitation of the community's historic train deport, which will also become part of Station Square.
The Urban Greening grant adds funding for major green space and pedestrian trails as well. Work on the Gold Line is expected to begin in 2011, along with the street improvements for Station Square.
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