He shoveled asphalt patches onto roads and became proficient at building concrete sidewalks.
Best of all, I can breathe a little deeper because others before me were kind enough to build sidewalks that allowed the big trees to get bigger.
They also plan to build sidewalks, install streetlights, landscape five or six acres on high ground and leave 30 acres along a stream untouched.
The company laid out streets, built sidewalks and houses, and installed a water system.
And the city's Department of Transportation has agreed to build new sidewalks, rebuild curbs and upgrade street lighting.
Ruggles obtained a fifty-year lease on most of the surrounding lots from 15th to 19th Streets, where he built sidewalks and curbs.
They made a conscious decision to build few sidewalks in the village, readily adopting the prevailing suburban notion that streets were enough.
Late in 1926 a bond issue of $287,000 was passed to build streets, sidewalks, a town hall, a water system, and fire protection.
But the city and state are each supposed to contribute $100 million to build streets and sidewalks and prepare the site for development.
Many residents of the area voted for annexation, expecting that the city would build sidewalks.