Some possible alternatives for the NRG Energy Inc. power plant site were heard during the city’s recent Economic Development Committee meeting.

Rebecca Wurster, city development director, said the strategic plan for the property include five different options.

“(One is) a distribution and logistics center; the second is a data center and cloud server; the third is looking at carbon neutral power generation such as wind and solar; the fourth is a battery storage facility and the last is what would it look like, how much would it cost to totally demo and clean up the site,” she said.

NRG was one of several topics during the committee meeting that took place last month. Also on the agenda was the controversial Dunkirk Senior Center grant of $750,000 that was put on hold because of the pandemic.

“I really wanted all public participation on this,” she said. “The population that it serves and I want to make sure it’s the safest environment to get the best input from those people who utilize the facility.”

Improvements being considered would include an activity area, two physicians offices for rotating doctors, two new restrooms that are compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, two clerical offices and window and door replacements for more energy efficiency in the building. However, the issues the seniors who attend the center face, in their opinion, is an aging kitchen and limited parking — that’s their biggest concern.

Other grants Wurster discussed included:

¯ The Local Initiative Support Corp. Zombie Properties grant, which has $14,051 left after funds were used to redevelop and sell eight properties in the city. Most of the properties have been fixed up and put on the market.

¯ Smart Growth has $750,000 left, which covered the pier renovation, the Central Avenue Connections project and the new restaurant being built on the pier.

¯ $50,000 for state Department of Transportation Intersection Improvements for Central Avenue and Lakeshore Drive. “We have plans in place for it, we have drawings and designs,” Wurster said. “When we went out to bid on the pier project we included this as an additional project, quote came in quite high and we couldn’t do more with the project yet, nut with the Lakeshore Drive project we’re going to try to work on ways that we can include this.”

¯ $1.5 million for a Lakeshore Drive Complete Streets project that will reshape the road from Main Street to Brigham Road. Amenities include crosswalks and bike lanes, similar to what was done on Central Avenue.

¯ $1 million Restore New York grant that is going to be used in conjunction with private owners to restore the old macaroni building at 23 Lakeshore Drive. The building will eventually house two doctor’s offices and a few rentable apartments upstairs and will resemble the Chadwick Bay Lofts building when completed.

Three other new grants that were touched on and haven’t been used yet were the Wright Park grant of roughly $300,000 for the new playground going at the waterfront, the Niagara Motors Cleanup grant of $500,000 which will be used to clean up a Brownfield DLDC property in partnership with the DEC and the marketing grant of $135,000 to be used for advertising 15 sites around the city that are marked as brownfields to be shown to possible developers.