What’s Going On With The Western Waterfront Restoration? City Of Duluth Received Grant Money To Move Project Forward

It looks like the improvements to Duluth's Western Waterfront are going to get a little extra funding from an outside source.

The City of Duluth is reporting that they recently received $500,000 worth of grant money  to seed the project.  The funding comes from a Lake Superior Coastal Program.

The grant will help regrade and renew the entire 3.3-mile existing Western Waterfront Trail making it ADA accessible from the Irving Park neighborhood to Riverside.  A Conservation Partners Legacy grant will fund removal of exotic buckthorn and restoration of native trees in the 90-acre Western Waterfront Trail corridor. In addition, a donation of $50,000 from Canadian Northern to Community Action Duluth’s Stream Corps will fund tree plantings along the Western Waterfront Trail and the addition of a new trail. The City will provide $375,000 of matching funds from the one-half percent tourism tax renewed in 2014 to support recreation and tourism projects in the St. Louis River Corridor.

So when does the work start?  Officials with the city say  that they expect to start on the project this summer.