Current Construction Projects

2024 Road Program
This annual program will resurface or repair approximately 20 asphalt and concrete neighborhood streets throughout the City. In 2024, the City will invest roughly $1.5 million in resurfacing and repairing local roads.

2024 Sidewalk Program
This annual program will replace deficient concrete sidewalk slabs in Ward 1 (Zones D and E) through an assessment process that were not replaced by property owners as a result of 2023 inspections by the City. These zones consisted of 17.6 miles of sidewalk. The sidewalk inspections found roughly 2,300 slabs of sidewalk to be deficient and in need of repair or replacement.

Mentor Lagoons Marina Bulkhead Replacement Phase 5
This project will repair and replace approximately 600-feet of bulkhead in the marina along D Dock with steel sheet piling and concrete walk at a cost of around $600,000.

Senior Center Parking Lot
This project will construct a new 90-space asphalt parking lot just to the north of the existing parking lot connecting to Munson Road. The new lot will roughly double the amount of parking at the Senior Center and is expected to cost around $1,500,000.

Edgehill Road Culvert Replacement
This project will replace an existing 42” diameter deteriorating steel culvert with a new 42” diameter high density polyethylene corrugated culvert and install concrete headwalls.

Lakeshore Blvd. Storm Sewer
This project will replace approximately 600-feet of undersized storm sewer on the south side of Lakeshore Boulevard from Green Oak Drive to Dearborn Road with 12” pipe.

Center Street Bridge Deck
ODOT will continue to work on the underside of the project in 2024. Work will mostly be confined to under the bridge and includes steel beam painting. Traffic on Center Street should not be impacted.

Marina Paver Parking Lot
At a cost of around $550,000, this project consists of installing a 16,000 square foot permeable paver parking lot at the Mentor Marina accommodating 22 boat trailers. In addition to the pavers, vegetated buffers will be installed and the existing bioswale by the office/storage building will be restored. The City recieved $270,594 in financial assistance from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation towards this project.

Norton Estate Stream Restoration
This project consists of rerouting a section of stream around an existing dam that is no longer structurally sound. This project will also restore hundreds of feet of stream downstream of the dam that has encountered elevated levels of erosion. The total cost of this project is $366,000 which is primarily funded through a grant received with the help of Chagrin River Watershed Partners.

Hopkins Road Resurfacing
This project consists of milling and resurfacing the asphalt pavement on Hopkins Road from Plains Road to Lakeshore Boulevard. The total investment in this project is $468,000 of which half will be covered by OPWC.

Mentor Marina Dock Road
This project consists of rehabbing the access roads for D and E Docks as well as the front entrance area of the Marina. The method of rehabilitation will be a double chip seal as well as the addition of stone base in certain areas. The total investment in Marina Road Rehabilitation will be about $225,000.

Other Parking Lot Resurfacings
Blackbrook Golf Course, Krueger Park, Cemetery Road, and Civic Center Path behind the Ice Arena.