LYNN — Gov. Charlie Baker will be in town on Wednesday to bring as much as $7.2 million in grants to support infrastructure improvements.
The governor and Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash will join Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy and state Sen. Thomas M. McGee as they unveil the latest cash award from the MassWorks Infrastructure Program.
The state grant provides road and other improvements to support housing production, economic development, and job creation.
The governor’s office and James Marsh, the Department of Community Development director, declined to provide specifics in advance of the event to be held at the YMCA.
But the city applied for two MassWorks grants this year, one to reconfigure traffic in front of the Y where a new $26 million facility is planned, and a second grant to fund additional traffic improvements near the new Market Basket at Western Avenue and Federal Street.
The money comes on the heels of a $1.2 million MassWorks grant that will create a new entrance to the city’s first waterfront development in decades.
In June, Kennedy said the city was the recipient of the grant that will be used to build a southbound turn into the former Beacon Chevrolet site on the Lynnway. The $80 million project featuring 348 waterfront apartments has yet to break ground.
This year, 47 MassWorks grants will be awarded in the Bay State totaling nearly $85 million.
