SALISBURY — Two downtown renovation projects are gearing up, and the general contractor has asked the city to temporarily block parking spaces for construction crews near the Bernhardt Building on North Main Street and the Hedrick Building on North Church Street.
City Council will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall, 217 S. Main St.
Bounce City plans to open an 8,000-square-foot indoor children’s amusement park at 120 N. Church St. in the Hedrick Building. Central Piedmont Builders has asked to block off four parking spaces for three months during construction.
Bounce City plans wall-to-wall inflatables with bouncers, slides, obstacles, video and arcade games, themed play areas, concessions, dancing, birthday parties and other special events and music. Birthday parties are for children 12 years old and younger.
Renovations to the Hedrick Building include indoor, private parking for tenants and customers. The building behind St. John’s Lutheran Church has been mostly vacant for years, save the corporate office for Hedrick Industries, a gravel and sand company.
Family owned by Johnson and Hedrick Realty, the building last housed Earle’s Office Supplies and a dance and karate studio.
Central Piedmont Builders also is requesting the use of three parking spaces at 113-117 N. Main St., the former location of Bernhardt Hardware.
Chad Vriesema, owner of Central Piedmont, and business partner Bryan Wymbs bought the Bernhardt last year. Architect Gray Stout has designed six upscale apartments on the second floor, with rents ranging from $850 to $1,200 a month.
Plans show a large restaurant and at least two retail spaces on the first floor.
Also on Tuesday’s City Council agenda:
• Mayor Paul Woodson will proclaim July 13-19 as Chickweed Celebrating Indestructible Women Week.
• City Council will receive two applications from business owners who want to operate pool halls and consider setting public hearings for Aug. 5. Shawn Wheeler, owner of Firewater at 122 Avalon Drive, is requesting a permit for four pool tables. Glenda Zambrano, owner of La Cabana at 2168 Statesville Boulevard, is requesting a permit for two pool tables.
• Part of a three-meeting process for voluntary annexation, City Council will receive a certificate of sufficiency from the city clerk regarding the voluntary annexation of the Rowan County fairgrounds on Julian Road and consider setting a public hearing for Aug. 5.
• City Council will amend the fiscal year 2014-2015 budget to include the city’s $400,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Grant.
• City Council will consider approving the local water supply plans for the city of Salisbury and town of China Grove, consider adopting the revised Rowan County and city of Salisbury local coordinated plan for transit and consider adopting the revised Title VI Plan for the Salisbury Transit System.
• City Council will consider renewing the city’s three-year membership in the Cabarrus/Iredell/Rowan HOME Consortium Cooperation Agreement.
Salisbury participates in a three-county consortium that receives U.S. Housing and Urban Development grant funding for affordable housing. The grant funds are administered through the Salisbury Community Development Corporation to provide down payment assistance, owner-occupied housing rehabilitation and emergency housing repair for low- and moderate-income people and families.
This year, the city’s HOME budget is $105,875 based on preliminary information from HUD. The HOME consortium requires a 25 percent match, which has been provided by the Salisbury Community Development Corporation in recent years.
• City Council will receive public comments.
• Interim City Manager John Sofley’s comments.

Contact reporter Emily Ford at 704-797-4264.