It’s time to award the beautiful properties of Warren.

The Street Landscape Committee on Tuesday morning finalized the list of properties receiving the city beatification awards. The ceremony will be held at the next Street Landscape Committee Meeting on Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. at Art Kelsey Park on Liberty Street.

A total of nine properties — six residences, two businesses, and one church — will be receiving awards for their property’s appearance. Those properties are 1303 Sill Street, 208 Monroe Street, 28 Orchard Street, 609 Market Street, 1308 Pennsylvania Avenue East, 18 Crescent Park, 100 Crescent Park, 313 Liberty Street, and 11 Russell Street.

The bird viewing platform project on Pennsylvania Avenue West is ongoing, according to David Hildebrand. Hildebrand reported that railings have been put up but that the structure has been delayed.

He said that the completion of that project is important because the DCNR grant that is expected to fund the Crescent Park Walk project will be in some part evaluated based on completion of the bird viewing project. The Crescent Park Walk grant was received and reviewed by DCNR according to the committee’s July minutes, and Hildebrand said Tuesday that he expects to hear back on it near the end of November or beginning of December.

That $300,000 project will include lights from the Hickory Street Bridge down to Crescent Park, replanting and maintenance of trees throughout the river side walkway to the Bonnell Field area, updates to the restrooms, and parking spaces. The goal is to be ready to bid that project out in the Spring of 2013.

Committee members agreed to have Hildebrand research the history of the Street Landscape Committee, which was the Shade Tree Commission until the late eighties, by Hildebrand’s estimation. Copies of the committee’s bylaws would be made available for members at the next meeting, it was decided, and discussion on whether to remain the Street Landscape Committee or to move back toward becoming the Shade Tree Commission will be decided in the future.

Fall tree planting volunteers are still needed, said Hildebrand, and fall planting plans are ongoing. Committee members agreed to bring potential sites for tree planting to the September meeting. Hildebrand said that he expects to have the list of trees being made available within the week. He said he’s planning to be able to place trees at around 70 sites throughout the city. Included in that are six Warren Forest EOC-owned properties, the property owned by the First Church of God on Madison Avenue on Warren’s east side, west of the bird viewing platform and across the river from it at Crescent Park, where around four of the trees planted previously have not been doing well, according to committee member Mark Davis.

The next Street Landscape Committee meeting will be held Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 10 a.m. at Art Kelsey Park.