PRINCETON — Princeton Common Council will expand a landscaping project near the city’s new roundabout traffic circle.

The project, approved Monday night, includes installing trees and various plants running parallel to bike and walking trails planned for the area.

Initial landscaping of the roundabout was recently performed by Dallas Foster of Vincennes. Under a contract with the city, Foster landscaped the center area of the roundabout, a project that turned the former four-way stop intersection at Brumfield Avenue and Embree Street into a traffic circle.

That agreement between the city and Landscapes by Dallas Foster Inc. was for $53,521, and the council voted Monday to add $22,261.60 to that amount for Foster to perform the expanded landscaping along bike and walking trails.

Mayor Bob Hurst explained that Indiana Dept. of Transportation (INDOT) dollars will be used to help fund the project.

The council also discussed potentially selling a portion of the lot at the corner of Main and Emerson streets to local businessman Jim Seaton. The purchase agreement would sell half of the lot to Seaton for $7,500. Seaton owns Breakers tavern, just south of the vacant lot.

Council members decided to table that decision until their December meeting to give them time to study a diagram of the lot, as there was some question to exactly which half of the lot they would be selling.