{"id":121620,"date":"2026-02-23T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121620\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:57:11","slug":"moosic-plans-main-street-revitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/121620\/","title":{"rendered":"Moosic plans Main Street revitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moosic wants to revitalize its Main Street.\n<\/p>\n

Borough council voted this month to seek funding from the state Department of Transportation for a streetscape project to improve the safety and walkability of its Main Street, council President Marilyn French said.\n<\/p>\n

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A broken sidwalk along Main St. in Moosic Monday, February 23, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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A vinyl concrete patch mix fills in the cracks on a sidewalk along Main St. between Birney Ave. and N. Third St. in Moosic Monday, February 23, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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A vehicle passes over a crosswalk Main St. in Moosic Monday, February 23, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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A vehicle crosses the railroad tracks on Main St. in Moosic Monday, February 23, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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A broken sidwalk along Main St. in Moosic Monday, February 23, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n

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Moosic officials have been paying attention to downtown revitalization efforts in communities like Pittston and Carbondale, seeing the attention to detail that attracts economic development, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s improving property values and improving our quality of life,\u201d French said. \u201cWe want to have a Main Street that we\u2019re really proud of, and right now, there\u2019s so many other things that have been a priority that that kind of fell to the bottom of the list.\u201d<\/p>\n

To achieve that revitalization, French said council passed a resolution during its Feb. 9 meeting to apply for grant funding through PennDOT\u2019s Multimodal Transportation Fund for the first phase of work spanning from Birney Avenue to North Third Street. The project would cost $1,057,332, French said. The application seeks $813,332 from PennDOT, and Moosic would have to contribute $244,000 as a required match, she said.<\/p>\n

Beyond improving pedestrian safety and aesthetics, the grant also would address a water ponding issue at the train tracks cutting across Main Street, she said, explaining it would avoid flooding issues experienced in Moosic\u2019s Greenwood section.<\/p>\n

Work would include new sidewalks, new decorative crosswalks, pavers and new, nice light posts, French said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust something to kind of tie it all together and give it the charm that it used to have,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The long-term goal is to extend those improvements across the entire length of Main Street, ending at the intersection of Lonesome Road.<\/p>\n

Main Street is a highly traveled road that serves as the primary connector between Moosic and Old Forge, she said.<\/p>\n

Moosic also desperately needs new \u201cWelcome to Moosic\u201d signs, she said.<\/p>\n

Work is contingent on grant funding, however, French said. If Moosic does receive the funding, she hopes to complete the first phase of work in 2027.<\/p>\n

French believes the upgrades to Main Street will improve community pride and the quality of life for residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt improves walkability, it improves safety, and ultimately, we have a lot of families in our neighborhoods,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want families to feel proud of their Main Street.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moosic wants to revitalize its Main Street. Borough council voted this month to seek funding from the state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,1214,139,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-121620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-moosic","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}