Hazel Street had been identified by John Dreher's office with the Community Development Block Grant Annual Action Plan as an area needing pedestrian improvements.  They allocated $200,000 for the project to provide ADA sidewalks.  Hazel Street has a wide variety of walkers and wheelchair users with senior housing, public housing, the library, the post office, the mass transit transfer station, and the Towne Centre shopping mall all using it.

The City combined funds from the Infrastructure Improvement Fund (the local gas tax) to also deal with drainage problems, inadequate landscaping, and to mitigate dangerous sidewalk vaults.  The wall you see on the left was falling and being held up by the wooden utility pole before the project.  

The business owner saw the value in the street project and rebuilt the wall.  It now hosts one of the City Walldog murals.  In addition, the project brought about a bank reopening, and a pub adding an outdoor venue and reconstructing a street front wall.

The project contractor was Big-O Services who completed the project on time and below budget at $400,000.  This project surveying, design engineering, and construction engineering was done by City of Danville engineering staff who saved the tax payers $60,000 in consulting fees.