East Wenatchee to Expand 10th Street NE Project After TIB Grant

City of East Wenatchee staff can now expand their 10th Street NE reconstruction project after they were awarded a $1.1 million Transportation Improvement Board grant in late 2019.

The eastern portion of the project originally involved only the stretch of 10th Street NE from Grover Place to Kansas Ave. That segment was largely funded by a $1.7 million federal grant from the Chelan/Douglas Transportation Council.

Project Development Manager Tom Wachholder said the addition of the grant means 10th Street NE from Eastmont Ave to Kansas Ave will now be included in the $4.5 million project.

"At the end of the day, with all the grants in place, the city has about a $980,000 match." Wachholder explained, "Those funds will stem from both street funds and also stormwater utility funding so it's a mixed bag in terms of where the matching funds are coming from."

The project will therefore span the entire run of 10th Street NE (a collector) from Eastmont Ave until it literally turns into North Kentucky Ave (an arterial).

"The big picture plan with the 10th street corridor is to kind of move on over to Kentucky Avenue. That's going to be a priority in the future, to improve Kentucky." Wachholder added, "Basically picking up where this project left off and go all the way down to Grant Road."

The design phase should finish up this summer. Construction is set to being in early 2021 and will hopefully be completed by the end of 2021.