City receiving $5.3 million in road grants

SPOKANE VALLEY – Sullivan Road and Sprague Avenue improvements will move ahead, thanks in part to two grants totaling more than $5.3 million.

The two National Highway Performance Program grants include nearly $4 million for the South Sullivan Road Preservation Project and $1.4 million for the Sprague Avenue Preservation Project.

The South Sullivan Road Preservation Project will receive $3.96 million, 89% of the total estimated project cost of $4.46 million.

Construction is set to start in 2025 between East Eighth Avenue and East 24th Avenue.

The project will replace failing asphalt, expand the city’s traffic signal communication network, provide additional sidewalks, improve the existing stormwater treatment system and evaluate pedestrian crossing improvements near East 12th Avenue.

The grant award for the Sprague Avenue Preservation Project is $1.35 million.

This funding, paired with an additional $1.5 million federal grant the city secured through the Spokane Regional Transportation Council Surface Transportation Block Grant program, will fund $2.85 million — more than 92% of the estimated $3 million project cost.

Also set to begin in 2025, the Sprague Avenue Preservation Project between Bowdish and McDonald Roads will replace six lanes of asphalt and upgrade sidewalks.