As the city of Buchanan wraps up a more than $20 million infrastructure project downtown, it’s asking business owners and residents to take it easy on the concrete this winter.

City Manager Tony McGhee tells us in the past few weeks, contractors have poured the equivalent of about 18 blocks of concrete in the area. Now that snow has returned to Southwest Michigan for the season, the city’s put out word the new surface shouldn’t be treated with certain deicing or melting agents.

“ With new concrete, salt has a bad reaction to it and it causes the surface to become scarred and spalling occurs,” McGhee said. “ So for the first winter, we’re asking the downtown property owners not to put salt on this new concre

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