onto Main Street all the time, and it’s a pretty rough left turn with no stop- light,” Moore said. “This will make that problem much safer, as will more cross- walks. I see people cross the street all the time, so hopefully this will encour- age people to cross safely instead of in the middle of the street.” Position 2 Council Member John Ford said he believes Alternative 2 seemed like the best choice. “The one thing that we heard from both businesses and the community was that the medians were not wanted down the middle of Tomball,” Ford said. “And so the choice, No. 2, had the fewest medians.” Old Town Tomball’s future With a design chosen, the city is entering the contract phase of this proj- ect with construction several years out, Esquivel said. Public Works Director Drew Hu - man said construction will likely begin in 2025 or 2026 after tra c impact analysis and environmental studies are done, and the engineering documents are put together. The projected cost of the project is $28.61 million, funded primarily by the state and federal government, accord- ing to city information. Tomball is
expecting to shoulder the design, util- ity relocations and 10% of the right-of- way acquisition cost. In an email, Assistant City Manager Jessica Rogers said the city has desig- nated $3 million for FM 2920 from its Capital Improve- ment Program. “I don’t want
Hu man also said he expects the city’s alleyway project to be completed before construction on FM 2920 begins. The alley project’s Phase 1—which encompasses the 100 blocks of down- town—is anticipated to cost around $1.2 million and will renovate the alleyways
to park, they’ll still have the ability to walk. Hopefully we’ll have as minimal business impact as possible with [the FM 2920 project].” Aaron Edwards, executive director of the Tomball Renewal Center and Re:Bar Cafe & Juicestillery on Main Street, said he believes improvements to Old Town will help Tomball become more of a destination. “I think the renovations that they are talking about are going to be really great in the long run,” he said in an interview. “Improved sidewalks, doing some work in the alleys, things like that will be nothing but positive for us.” In addition to tra c improvements, Esquivel said he expects the FM 2920 project to improve accessibility down- town after the intersections are made Americans with Disabilities Act-com- pliant and the sidewalks are widened. “It’s going to have a direct impact not only aesthetically, because it’s going to be new there, but also the accessibility with wider sidewalks,” Esquivel said. “It’s going to be much nicer and pleas- ant to walk downtown. And I think that’s going to have a huge impact.”
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to speculate how much it would be [now] because it’s too open-ended at this point, but we know that it’s going to be more … [than] that $3 million gure,” Esquivel said. Rogers said any additional funds needed for the project will be dis- cussed with City Council once the project is further along.
Out of 101 comments, Alternative 2 received the most responses of the three alternatives.
downtown to be more walkable and have ameni- ties such as seat- ing, Community Impact previ- ously reported. E s q u i v e l said the city is reviewing the rst bid for the rst phase of the project as of late April. “It’ll be a very pedestri- an-friendly,
Alternative 1: 30 votes Alternative 2: 39 votes
Total responses:
101
No change: 15 votes Alternative 3: 17 votes
SOURCE: CITY OF TOMBALL COMMUNITY IMPACT
walkable, inviting environment in the downtown area,” Hu man said. “And with that being completed before [FM] 2920 is constructed [and] the parking lots along our downtown area [that] will not be a ected during this proj- ect so people will still have the ability
Hillegeist said the chamber is already discussing ways to keep down- town businesses accessible during the construction phase including using di erent access points such as back entrances.
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