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Six years later, the Second Street Corridor will cost an additional $5 million to build a bridge as part of the final phase.
On Tuesday, the Macon-Bibb County Commission’s Operations and Finance Committee moved ahead measures designed to pay for the rest of the now $13 million project.
The commission is scheduled to vote Sept. 5 on funding the rest of the three-phase project connecting west Macon by Mercer University with downtown.
The bridge would be paid for with $2.2 million from 2017 special purpose sales tax revenue. Another $1.9 million would come from refinancing a downtown tax allocation district bond. Macon-Bibb would also use about $900,000 of funds collected from the tax district to cover the remaining costs.
The bridge has become the most expensive piece of the Second Street Corridor, in part because of the number of demands made by railway company Norfolk Southern about the design, Mayor Robert Reichert said.
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