The Mobile City Council on Tuesday authorized a $1.3 million appropriation of Rebuild Alabama funds for phases III and IV of the Broad Street Redevelopment Project, which will primarily target Martin Luther King Avenue in downtown Mobile.

“There’s what you see on top of the street, and then there’s everything underneath,” Jennifer Greene, the city’s director of programs and project management, said Tuesday. “They’re big projects. Complete streets, is what we call them.”

The rebuild, which is currently in the design phase, is part of the larger project to revitalize the Broad Street corridor in downtown Mobile. In 2016, the city of Mobile received a $14 million TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant from the federal government for revitalization of the corridor. Though this is an extension of that project, no funds from that grant are being used for this phase of construction.

The revitalization will mean a complete overhaul of Martin Luther King Avenue from Butchers Lane to the intersection with Broad Street and Beauregard Street, Greene says. Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS) will work to upgrade the infrastructure underneath the street. New stormwater drainage and sidewalks will be added, as well as a bike lane, she says.

The project is meant to work hand-in-hand with the city’s Three Mile Creek Greenway project and the Mobile County Commission’s project to revitalize Isom Clemon Civil Rights Memorial Park. When it’s completed, there will be a bike path from the Three Mile Creek Greenway into downtown Mobile, Greene says.