Redevelopment Assistance Program News Today

The Borough of Lehighton is preparing to spend roughly $200,000 in grant funds to demolish a historic building in Lehighton’s downtown business district. (Times News, July 13). The building at 135-13...

Staff report Millcreek Township supervisors are asking the public to support its request for $6.2 million from the states Redevelopment Assistance Program to improve West Eighth Street from Pittsburgh Avenue to Peninsula Drive. The township plans to relocate power lines and install sidewalks, street trees, decorative light poles and other amenities to create a “main street” feel in the Presque Isle gateway district. West Eighth Street in the city of Erie is already being improved. The s...