Harden Street improvements in Columbia moving forward [Video]

Columbia City leaders said this project has been in the works for a few years but ran into a funding issue during the design process.

“We’re really excited about moving this project forward. It’s a project we’ve been working on and designing for quite some time several years,” Clint Shealy is the assistant city manager.

Columbia Water is the agency that requested the contract approval. The project will implement pedestrian safety improvements like raised medians, crosswalks, and appearance.

“A lot of foot pedestrian activity there. We had applied for federal funding dollars that are administered through SCDOT several years ago and had been awarded about a million and a half dollars to do the project,” Shealy said.

The project is at the intersection of Harden and Taylor streets where Benedict College and Allen University meet. It’s …