Cranbury officials will seek nearly $786,000 from the Murphy administration to help pay a little more than half the anticipated cost of reconstructing a 1-mile stretch of Brickyard Road.
Municipal officials will apply for a grant asking for $785,995 from the state Department of Transportation, but they won’t find out until next year about the outcome of the application.
Committeeman Jay Taylor, speaking after the Oct. 8 Township Committee meeting, said he was “pretty sure” the town would get something from the state.
“I think any grant would be welcome to help us defray the cost of this,” Committeeman Michael J. Ferrante said on Oct. 9. “I don’t think we’re expecting anywhere near the full amount, but I think we’ll take as much as we can get to help get the project done.”
Officials are eyeing reconstructing Brickyard Road from the traffic circle at Route 130 to Hightstown-Cranbury Station Road at a cost of $1.285 million, in a job that would take about a month to complete.
In terms of funding sources, Cranbury has the ability to use $725,000 that Viridian, the company that bought property in town for a warehouse development, set aside for Brickyard Road and other road projects in the municipality.
Another avenue is to use municipal surplus funds to close any gap between the state grant, the Viridian money and the final project cost.