The city will use part of a $763,000 grant from National Grid to create safe walkways to entice students from Union College and Union Graduate College to downtown.
The Metroplex Development Authority will administer the grant. Chairman Ray Gillen said the project, which is about a year from being launched, will involve installing energy efficient lights, directional signs and perhaps kiosks to create a safe pathway from the colleges to downtown venues.
“It will create these connective corridors that have been successful in other cities,” Gillen said. “The idea is to make it a more walkable downtown.”
The connective corridors will run north along Jay Street and branch off Franklin and Liberty streets to Nott Terrace.
National Grid President Tom King announced the grant during a news event today inside Center City complex on State Street. Center City contains the new Schenectady YMCA, one of the venues along the connective corridors.
More details will be available in Wednesday’s print editions of The Daily Gazette.
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