PRINCETON, W. Va. -Plans are in place to bring improvements to the City of Princeton, with additions coming to the City’s municipal complex thanks to new funding.
More than a year ago, the City of Princeton put plans in motion to centralize city buildings and build a new community center at City Hall through federal funding. Now, more than $2.4 million of additional money is coming to their projects, through then-Governor Jim Justice’s non-federal match funds.
$1.8 million of that money will be going to fund the new community center, with $657,000 going to their Police Department Project which is also planned to be built at the City Hall Complex. This police funding will also be matched through the congressional appropriation from Senators Manchin and Capito.
Princeton’s Economic Development Director Samuel Lusk says the projects the funding will go to are “critically important” for the people of Princeton.
“This combined project with the police department, the community center, and the addition of the wave pool is more than ten million dollars, so this investment in infrastructure keeps people here, but also entices future residents to come to the Princeton area, so we’re excited that it will just be a community asset for, I’d say, decades,” says Lusk.
Lusk thanks the government leaders who made this project possible and the Preservati Family Trust Foundation who donated the land where the City’s municipal complex sits.
He says they plan on breaking ground on all these projects by the end of the year.
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