From the Rochester D & C...
Roc the Riverway
The city this week will begin interviewing six engineering firms vying to be the design consultant on the aqueduct project and related riverfront promenades.
The plan is to remove the Broad Street bridge, which sits atop the aqueduct, and create a public space in the old Erie Canal bed of the aqueduct. That would include water features in some fashion.
Total project costs exceed $60 million, and include recreational trail connections off either end of the bridge. One of those would create a cantilevered promenade around the future Constellation headquarters building complex, officials said.
The initial design phase is $6 million or so, to which the state committed $4.5 million. The additional $5 million the state pledged as Constellation announced its headquarters move is likely to go toward utility upgrades and relocation of lines that are inside the aqueduct and beneath Aqueduct Street, an alleyway of sorts extending from Broad to Main streets.
The library terrace should be completed by year's end, no later than spring. Once the Broad Street bridge is removed the library terrace will look over into an amphitheater space in the old canal bed.
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https://www.democratandchronicle.com...ny/8378715002/
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