About 40 Aledo residents gathered at an outdoor town hall meeting on June 28 to provide input on the first phase of the city’s Pine Street redevelopment project.
City planner Nathan Gonzales explained to the group that The Velocity Group, a city planning consultant, was hired in 2019 to help the city plan for its future. One of the items that grew out of that process was the idea of redeveloping along Pine Street, the north-south corridor just to the west of FM 1187.
In the long term the plan will run the length of Pine Street, but the city is taking the process in stages, and the portion of the plan showed to residents was just the stretch of Pine Street from Jearl to John Street on the north end (behind Aledo Medicine Store).
Gonzales said the first part of the plan calls for a plaza on the north side of Jearl where there is now a vacant lot. The second part is the stretch between Jearl and John Streets.
Gonzales said the gutters along Pine street will be replaced with storm drains, parking would be added. and trees would be added.
Misty Christian, and engineer with Kimley-Horn, which is designing the project, said the project has just gotten started.
“What we want to do tonight is we don’t want to go too far without getting your input. We want to hear from you,” Christian said.
She added that the current iteration of the plan adds curbs, gutters, and sidewalks to the area of the project, along with decorative stamped concrete crosswalks.
“And this plaza area is going to serve as a trailhead that will begin to set the trail system on the back side and then also reach over to 1187,” Christian added.
The city plans additional meetings for resident input as the project takes place.
“We love a an engaged community,” Gonzales said.
Disclosure: Randy Keck is a member of the Aledo Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors.
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