Village of Waterford seeks proposals for downtown redevelopment

By Patricia Bogumil

Editor

Plans are progressing to transform the Village of Waterford’s downtown area into a welcoming destination for community members and visitors from around the area.

The Village is currently seeking proposals for engineering and design for the first phase of the Village’s Riverfront and Ten Club Park Redevelopment Area project.

Items included in the scope of services for preliminary engineering and final engineering and design include:

      • Reconstruction of the North Second Street municipal parking lot north and south of the village’s Safety Building.

      • Construction of new Elizabeth Street parking in the right-of-way south of Ten Club Park, with a two-foot wide buffer 
area provided to allow for 
possible construction of a fence in the future.

      • Reconstruction (or repaving) of privately owned parking stalls immediately north of the East Main Street 
buildings (construction being paid for 100 percent by private-property owners).

      • Creation of pedestrian walkways: on village property north of the privately owned parking stalls behind East Main Street buildings and south of the North Second Street municipal parking lot; on a village-owned vacated alley access to private parking west of North Second Street; and along village property running north and south from East Main Street to the North Second Street municipal 
parking lot, including enhancing the existing walkway.

      • Ornamental fencing or landscaping buffer east 
and south of the North Second Street municipal parking lot.

• Design of the trash enclosure in the North Second Street municipal parking lot.

      • Reconstruction of North Second Street from Division Street to East Main Street, including a redesign of the driveway and apron at the front of the Safety Building for improved Fire and Rescue Department access and use.

Also, the selected firm will engineer the storm sewer and road design for North Second Street and incorporate the design of infrastructure from firms working on other projects in the area.

      • Construction of a new seawall to replace the dilapidated one in Ten Club Park along the Fox River.

      • Identify the best location in Ten Club Park for an historic lookout and gazebo. The historic lookout should be moved away from the First and Main streets intersection in part due to traffic noise and located near the gazebo. It is anticipated that funding to construct these amenities will be sourced from outside parties and not the village.

      • Design an entrance to Ten Club Park that focuses attention on the entrance of the park, draws people into the park and lessens the attention paid to the close proximity of the roadway, especially the intersection of First and Main streets.

In November, Village President Tom Roanhouse noted that consultants in every study of the vßillage in the last 10 years have emphasized the need to take advantage of the Fox River as a natural resource. The plans now in the works do just that, he said.

“It’ll be gorgeous when it’s done!” Roanhouse said, and estimated the project could be completed in about two years.

Deadline for firms to submit proposals is noon, Friday, Jan. 30.

Questions and requests for information should be directed to Tina Chitwood, Community Development Manager for Racine County Economic Development Corporation by: emailing [email protected]
; calling (262) 898-7422
; or mailing Chitwood at Waterford Village Hall, 123 N. River St., Waterford WI 53185.

Firms are not permitted to contact other village staff or board members unless authorized by Chitwood. Such contact may disqualify the firm from evaluation.