HOUSTON – Montrose is getting a facelift just in time for Super Bowl 51.
The Montrose Management District is installing 28 identification markers at critical intersections throughout the Montrose community this year. The signs will be made with aluminum sign age materials and will feature a backlit banner sign face with color-changing LED lighting.
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"These improvements will add a series of new and exciting elements to the Montrose landscape and reinforce recognition of Montrose as one of the most unique and desirable destinations in the Houston region," an MMD representative said.
MMD has allocated $425,000 for installation of Phase One of the identity markers and $555,000 for the construction of esplanades at the California Street and Lovett Boulevard intersections of Montrose Boulevard.
The improvements also extend to seven bridge lighting installments over Highway 59, which are scheduled to be completed before February 2017, according to the Montrose MMD.
MMD official Gretchen Larson said the bridge lighting project is estimated to cost $3.4 million. The expenses are being covered with grants from the Texas Department of Transportation and additional funding from the Houston-Galveston Area Council and MMD, she said.
"The design of the identity markers, esplanades and bridge lighting projects have all been an evolutionary and collaborative process," she said.
Larson said project bids for the identification markers and esplanades will be reviewed Feb. 1.