North Shore Projects Recommended For Federal Funding

BEVERLY, MA — Mental health support, as well as public and alternative transportation and infrastructure programs, were among the 17 North Shore projects nominated for up to $40 million in federal funds.

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Salem) released his list of appropriation nominations for the state’s 6th Congressional District on Friday.

Moulton’s office said the project requests are divided into two types: Community Project Funding, which are projects that he sent to the House Committee on Appropriations, and Member Designated Projects, which are sent to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Moulton is a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

“My team and I vetted a long list of requests for Community Project Funding to deliver resources where they’ll have the greatest impact on the ground in Massachusetts,” Moulton said. “We’re moving these projects forward in the process to deliver on some of my top goals: easing traffic, giving people more freedom and options to move about beyond cars, and addressing the chronic lack of mental health care.”

The Community Funding Project is part of the community appropriations program the House of Representatives adopted this year. While members submit the requests, funding for the proposed projects must still be approved by Congress, and organizations here are not guaranteed funding at this time.

Moulton’s nominations are:

• Essex County Mental Health Initiative: Investments that will address the mental health challenges facing populations disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• North Shore Community Health Urgent Care Facility: Investments that will allow the facility to better address the needs of low-income patients.
• North Shore Community College’s Anatomy and Physiology Lab Renovation: Investments that will focus on design, renovation and equipment for an Anatomy and Physiology lab in the Math and Science Building at NSCC’s Danvers campus.
• The STAR Program (Supporting Transitions and Reentry) Program for Convicted individuals: Investments that will enhance participant success through conditions of the court, probation and parole.
• Open Door Expansion of North Shore Hunger Network: Investments that will expand food distribution through the North Shore Hunger Network.
• City of Newburyport Bulkhead Reconstruction: Investments that will reconstruct a bulkhead that protects the north shore economy, including fishing, cruising and tourism, and the recreational boating industries, as well as protect a heavily utilized boardwalk and public park.
• Harborlight Community Partners Affordable Housing Development: Investments to support one of three buildings (new construction) planned as part of affordable family housing development in Beverly.
• Border to Boston Trail Gap Design: Investments that will allow the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to complete engineering and design work for unfinished sections of the Border to Boston Trail in the Massachusetts Sixth District, specifically in the communities of Boxford, Georgetown, Newbury, Marblehead, and Peabody.
• South Salem Commuter Rail Stop: Investments that will help complete the Conceptual Design Phase 1 of a South Salem Commuter Rail Stop, on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Newburyport/Rockport Line, bringing the project to 15% design in accordance with the MBTA Standard Scope of Services for Commuter Rail Projects.
• Design and Construction of the Wakefield Broadway Commuter Rail Crossing: Investments that will provide design and construction funding for the installation of the quad railroad gates and pedestrian/ADA mobility enhancements for Wakefield’s Broadway at-grade Commuter Rail crossing.

More details about these projects including the amount of funding Moulton requested for each can be found here.

Multon’s transportation requests are here:

• Double-Tracking on Haverhill Line in Massachusetts: Investments that will add 6 miles of double-track on the Haverhill Line between Lawrence and Wilmington.
• Finalizing the Design of Summer Street in Lynnfield: Investments that will finalize the design of Summer Street in Lynnfield.
• Fiske Street and Andover Street Sidewalk and Street Improvements: Investments that will serve the pedestrian, bicycle, vehicular, and transit modes as it will provide safe ADA-compliant sidewalks and ramps, bicycle sharrow markings, and regulatory signage as well as resurfacing of Fiske and Andover Streets.
• Lynn Complete Streets Project: Investments that will extend roadway reconstruction and safety improvements currently under construction in downtown Lynn.
• Lynn Commuter Rail Station Rehabilitation: Investments that will allow MassDOT and the MBTA to rehabilitate the Lynn Commuter Rail Station.
• Peabody Canal Riverwalk Construction: Investments that will construct a multimodal riverwalk while simultaneously replacing the failing south canal wall in Peabody.
• Salem/Peabody: Boston Street Improvement Project: Investments that will improve the Boston Street corridor.

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