The city of Akron will receive a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for work on the decommissioned one-mile section of the Akron Innerbelt and in the surrounding corridor, U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes, D-Akron, announced Wednesday.
The funding was announced during a community workshop event that the city hosted with project partners on the future of the Innerbelt at the newly renovated Ed Davis Community Center. Those partners are lead planning firm Sasaki, engineering consultant WSP, ThirdSpace Action Lab, Ideas and Action, City Architecture and Vista Site Selection.
City officials played a brief video of Sykes speaking for approximately 100 workshop attendees…