Boulder City has secured $850,000 in federal funding to push forward Phase II of its Nevada Way Reconstruction Project, extending a downtown makeover that officials say will improve safety, accessibility, and the overall experience along the city's historic commercial strip. City leaders credited the support of U.S. Rep. Dina Titus in helping move the funding through, according to an announcement from the City of Boulder City.
The city's account, posted Friday, framed the money as a boost for both pedestrians and merchants along the corridor, saying the project will improve safety, access, and the downtown Boulder City experience while supporting local businesses, per the City of Boulder City. The funding builds on a longer federal push: in May 2025, Titus submitted a formal Community Project Funding request to the House Appropriations Committee seeking $2.2 million for the Nevada Way Rehabilitation project through the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, according to the Office of Rep. Dina Titus.
What Phase II Actually Covers
Phase II extends the reconstruction beyond Nevada Way's main strip to Wyoming Street, from Nevada Way to Utah Street, along with sections of Utah Street and Nevada Way north of Wyoming, according to the City of Boulder City. That's a notable expansion from Phase I, which was limited to Nevada Way between Wyoming and Colorado streets. The work itself will involve pulverizing and replacing existing pavement, base preparation, new curb and gutter installation, ADA-compliant sidewalks and access ramps, and decorative paver crosswalks, the city's project documentation states.
Those upgrades mirror the Complete Streets approach used in Phase I, which wrapped up in late 2025. That earlier phase was awarded in June 2025 to Unicon Contracting for more than $2.6 million and was completed in just 80 days, finishing ahead of the city's major fall events, according to the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada. GCW Engineering handled the design work for that first phase.
Parking Got a Rework, Too
Phase I didn't just repave the street — it reshuffled how downtown parking works. The redesign converted 45-degree head-in spaces on Nevada Way to parallel parking while switching Wyoming Street to head-in parking, a swap that actually increased the net number of parking spots from 106 to 135, according to reporting from NVBEX. The city made that trade to preserve outdoor dining space for merchants along what's known locally as Restaurant Row, and business owners had initially voiced concerns about losing street space before the final layout was set.
Beneath the new pavement, the city also tackled infrastructure that hadn't been touched in decades. Crews replaced 50-year-old water lines under Nevada Way, installing 18 modern copper lines, 21 backflow-prevention devices, and two mainline valves designed to prevent future street cuts, per city documentation. Pairing that underground work with the surface repaving was meant to avoid tearing up the newly rebuilt street again down the line.
A Broader Pattern of Federal Investment
The Nevada Way funding isn't the only infrastructure money Titus has steered toward Boulder City recently. In January, she also secured $980,000 in federal community project funding through the FY2026 minibus spending package to expand capacity and safety at the city's Wastewater Treatment Plant, according to the Office of Rep. Dina Titus. That grant was focused on water security and long-term infrastructure reliability for the municipality.
Nevada Way itself carries historical weight that predates the current reconstruction by nearly a century. The street was originally established in 1931 by the Bureau of Reclamation and Six Companies to serve as the central commercial thoroughfare for workers building the Hoover Dam, according to the National Scenic Byway Foundation. Boulder City was itself created as a master-planned federal town to support dam construction, which helps explain why the corridor still functions as the heart of downtown today.
Timing the Work Around Merchants
City officials have been deliberate about scheduling construction to limit the hit to local businesses. Major reconstruction along Nevada Way was explicitly scheduled for July through September after merchants identified late summer as their slowest tourist period, with the goal of wrapping up before Boulder City's autumn community events draw crowds downtown, according to the Boulder City Review. That same seasonal logic is expected to guide Phase II as it moves forward with the newly secured federal dollars.
Boulder City's project is a relatively modest one compared to the road work happening elsewhere in the region. In neighboring Henderson, the Regional Transportation Commission is carrying out the 7.5-mile Reimagine Boulder Highway project, a multi-year multimodal overhaul that includes center-running transit lanes and elevated bike lanes, with completion scheduled for August 2027, according to News 3 Las Vegas. Hoodline previously covered the Nevada Way overhaul's council approval in June 2025, when the city greenlit the Phase I contract and street layout changes that set the stage for this latest round of funding.
