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St. Helens Receives Notice of BUILD Grant Decision
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 14, 2019
ST. HELENS, OR – The City of St. Helens received notification this week from the U.S. Department of Transportation that St. Helens was not selected as a grant recipient for the 2019 BUILD (Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development) Transportation Discretionary Grants program.
The City of St. Helens applied for $11.1 million in federal grant funding for transportation infrastructure for its St. Helens Waterfront Redevelopment Project. The City would have utilized the funds to extend The Strand Street and South 1st Street south, link the two streets to complete a loop on the waterfront property, and tie both new street extensions into Tualatin Street and South 2nd Street with a pedestrian path. The funding request was also for approximately 1,500 feet of public boardwalk and trail access along the bank of the Columbia River.
Though the project was not funded, the City of St. Helens remains committed to the St. Helens Waterfront Redevelopment Project and increasing public access to a portion of the Columbia River which was formerly a private industrial site.
The City of St. Helens will participate in a debrief with U.S. DOT in January 2020 to receive feedback on its BUILD Grant application. As the Waterfront Redevelopment Project plans are refined and designs are improved, City staff and City Councilors continue to work with local and regional partners to apply for additional state and federal funding for the project.
In 2018, the U.S. DOT BUILD Grant program received 851 applications for funding from across the United States, and only 11 percent were successful. This year, 55 projects were awarded funding, only one of which was from Oregon.
To learn more about the St. Helens Waterfront Redevelopment Project, visit the City’s website at https://www.ci.st-helens.or.us/planning/page/waterfront-redevelopment-pr....
Additional information about the BUILD Grant program, along with a complete list of funded projects for the 2019 Fiscal Year cycle, can be found at https://www.transportation.gov/BUILDgrants.
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For further information regarding the St. Helens Waterfront Redevelopment Project, please contact City Administrator John Walsh at 503-366-8211 or jwalsh@ci.st-helens.or.us.
