Lula is playing leapfrog as it prepares to open bids on the third phase of an effort to spruce up downtown. The city has scheduled to hold the bid opening Monday on its “streetscape” project, skipping over a second phase that has yet to get funding through a Transportation Enhancement grant from the Georgia Department of Transportation. Lula used money from the program for the first phase of improvements at Athens and Main streets, then moved on to the second phase, which was approved in 2012.