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DAVIDSON
The Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department has secured $1.1 million in federal stimulus money to begin the West Branch Rocky River Greenway in Davidson.
The grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will build the 1.1-mile first phase of the greenway.
The project will combine with the existing Southeast Greenway to link several subdivisions to Davidson Elementary School, South Street Park and to an area with sidewalks and easy biking to downtown Davidson and Davidson College, Park and Recreation officials announced last week.
Construction is expected to start early next year and finish in about a year, officials said.
The new trail will run from River Ford Drive, east along West Branch Rocky River and end east of Shearer Road. It will link with the sidewalks and bike lanes of Southeast Greenway, which passes through the River Run community to a paved trail.
West Branch Rocky River Greenway is the county's second greenway to draw federal stimulus money. The first was Toby Creek Greenway, which will link Mallard Creek/Clark's Creek Greenway to UNCC.
