FOLEY, Ala. — With the 100-year anniversary of the city of Foley just one year away, plans for a Centennial Plaza honoring the occasion continue.

According to Foley City Administrator Mike Thompson, efforts to fund the project have proven successful.

“We sold every plaque,” he recently told The Onlooker. “The brivcks are coming along.”

According to fundraising literature, bricks are available in two sizes. For $50, four-by-eight-inch bricks can be purchased and can hold up to three lines of text with 15 characters available on each line.

“But what we need to sell more of are the paver steps,” Thompson said.

Those are eight-by eight inch brick. At $125 per brick, they can hold six lines of text, also with 15 characters available on each line.

As previously reported, the east stage in the plaza was purchased by Riviera Utilities, and the west stage facing the fountain was purchased by South Baldwin Regional Medical Center. According to Dawson, the donor opportunities for memorial plaques on the large columns have sold out, but there are still opportunities to buy memorial plaques on the medium and small columns

However, residents can also fund a portion of the project that can be heard, not seen. Numerous songs are available at $10 each. Those songs will be part of the 52-foot clock in the Centennial Plaza. Once stocked in the timepiece, bells will be played electronically to resonate soft tunes in the downtown Foley area.

As previously reported, the city already has the clock in its possession.

“The clock is in storage in Cincinnati, Ohio,” Thompson said.

With the go ahead, it will carefully be transported to Foley to be part of the plaza. According to Thompson, that will begin soon.

“I think we’ll start seeing construction as early as March, maybe April,” he said.

Once the project starts, it won’t take long to complete.

“It’s a five to six-month build,” Thompson said.

That timetable will allow the plaza to be completed by Jan. 8, 2015.

“They’re timing it so it’s up and operational by our Centennial,” Thompson said.

For more information on available opportunities, contact Suzanne Kellams at 251-943-1545.