Friday, March 8, 2013
U.S. Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood tours Kent Central Gateway transit center, recipient of $20 million federal grant
Standing on the ground floor of a $26 million parking garage and bus depot, U.S. Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood declared PARTA's Kent Central Gateway transit center a shining example of the success of the Stimulus Act. LaHood, who was in Kent to tour the new transit center this morning, pointed to Congress passing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that funneled $800 billion in stimulus money to local communities for projects like Kent's and, like many local leaders have done for months, credited that with supercharging downtown Kent's redevelopment. The U.S. Department of Transportation alone received $48 billion from the Stimulus Act to help spur projects like Kent's transit center and stimulate local economies. "In that …
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Lockhart Concrete Co. employee died March 27 after accident at construction site for PARTA's Kent Central Gateway transit center.
An Akron company is appealing two workplace-safety citations it was issued in connection to the March 2012 death of one its employees at the construction site for PARTA's Kent Central Gateway transit center. Lockhart Concrete Co. worker Russell Hirschfelt, 49, of Barberton, was walking between a stack of concrete panels and the rear of a 2006 Caterpillar excavator just before 11 a.m. March 27 when the excavator moved and pinned him between the machine and concrete. Hirschfelt died that evening at Akron City Hospital due to injuries sustained in the accident. Lockhart Concrete is appealing the two citations it received for “serious” violations from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, according to …
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Newest favored concept involves a 'courtyard of honor' in downtown Kent.
Plans for a fallen veterans’ memorial prompted by the May 28 death of U.S. Army Spec. Adam Hamilton of Kent continue to evolve, with city officials now considering the creation of a downtown plaza area featuring flags representing each branch of the military. City Manager Dave Ruller updated City Council members Wednesday on the progress of evolving plans made by council’s ad-hoc Veterans Memorial Committee. The committee was created in June not long after Hamilton, a 2007 Theodore Roosevelt High School graduate, was killed while serving in Afghanistan. Since summer, memorial ideas have included naming a newly created park or a section of bike trail after Hamilton. Ruller said when the committee last met, there was talk of creating a …
Sue JEffers
7:30 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
right. that's why this article is about tax payer subsidization of the project making it possible. amazing how someone could claim, in connection with an article about how great the public subsidies that have made the redevelopment, infrastructure building for private entities, (not to mention the tax payer monies from kent subsidizing the entire project, & state of ohio taxpayer monies). even … more ›