The City of Sandpoint is set to begin the next chapter for revitalizing the Downtown Core area. The City adopted the Downtown Streets Plan and Design Guidelines in 2012, with improvements to Church Street, Third and Fourth Avenues between Pine and Church Streets already completed. The next step in implementing the Plan will be the reconstruction of Cedar Street between Fifth and Second Avenues. The project will provide wider sidewalks with street furniture, storm gardens to treat stormwater before discharging to Sand Creek, Pend Oreille Lake and Pend Oreille River, places for public art, new landscaping and a change to two-way traffic. Parking will be changed to provide diagonal parking on some sides of the street and parallel parking on the opposite side of the street. With funding from the Sandpoint Urban Renewal Agency, the City will see the first phase of the project transform the Downtown into a new and welcoming environment for people to rediscover all of what Downtown Sandpoint has to offer.

Phase 1 of the project on Cedar Street between 2nd and 5th Avenues is out to bid with construction tentatively scheduled to start in June of this year! See the Project Schedule page for an update.