A nearly $9 million project featuring new roadway, lighting, storm sewers, sidewalks and water main in downtown 5th Avenue highlights an ambitious 2009 capital improvement program in Maywood.  The 5th Avenue project, from Quincy to Lake Street, utilizes capital dollars only without any village operating funds.
 
Other major infrastructure upgrades include resurfacing all of Madison within the village boundaries estimated at $1,250,000 of federal and Madison TIF funds; a $1.1 million Lake Street improvement project including roadway lighting, sidewalks and streetscape using combined state and village dollars; and a road resurfacing, water main and drainage improvement project on Main Street from 1st Avenue to 5th Avenue costing an estimated $985,000.
 
“We are continuing our proactive effort to upgrade our roads, modernize our downtown infrastructure and address flooding problems in Maywood,” asserted Mayor Henderson Yarbrough Sr.  “With our federal and state partners at our side advocating for us, we are able to improve our roads without significant use of our operating funds,” the mayor added.
 
“We continue to zero in on our prioritized list of infrastructure needs,” said Village Manager Jason Ervin.  “We thank the public for helping us identify roads greatest in need of immediate work.”
 
Other road resurfacing projects anticipated in the 2009 program include:  9th Avenue from Harrison to Madison; 11th and 14th Avenues from Madison to Washington; 6th Avenue from Main to Lake; Chicago Avenue from Lake through Thatcher; Oak Street from 5th to 13th Avenue; 11th Avenue from N. Maywood Drive to Van Buren; and 10th Avenue from Harrison to Adams.  Along with the resurfacing, work on Main Street, Oak Street, 6th Avenue, 10th Avenue and 11th Avenue includes drainage improvements.
 
Also targeted was the cul-du-sac at 21st and 20th Avenues and Randolph, which is scheduled for removal in 2009.