The Pajama Factory in Williamsport. KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
A $2 million state grant for the Pajama Factory, an artists’ studio at 1347 Park Ave., is giving its owner, who wants to leverage the money starting in coming months, a sense of optimism.
“That grant will allow us to get bigger and better,” said Mark Winkelman, Pajama Factory owner and founder.
Located in a rejuvenated, historic factory complex at 1307 Park Ave., the site was a recipient of a state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant from Gov. Tom Wolf’s Office of Budget.
The factory consists of an arts community who have come together to build off of each other’s strengths and dreams in order to create something bigger than themselves, Winkelman said.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf held a news conference on Thursday to outline his 2021 agenda for the commonwealth, prioritizing a path towards recovery for all Pennsylvanians following the COVID-19 pandemic. The governor s office also released the following outline of Wolf s plans: As the General Assembly convenes for a new legislative session, Governor Tom Wolf today outlined his agenda, in which he continues to prioritize ensuring that Pennsylvania businesses and workers have a path toward recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, building on bipartisan progress by removing barriers to help everyday Pennsylvanians succeed, and demanding accountability through government reform. “ The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed Pennsylvania and exacerbated existing barriers for too many Pennsylvanians. It continues to have negative consequences for businesses, workers, and families throughout the commonwealth, ” Gov. Wolf said. “ To get Pennsylvania back on track from the
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The site of the former Ford City High School at Fourth Avenue and 16th Street in Ford City will become the home of a new Butler County Community College site in 2022.
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Butler County Community College’s announcement of $2.2 million from public and private sources for a new site in Ford City increases its sites to five Western Pennsylvania counties.
The college’s new location in Ford City, known as “BC3 @ Armstrong,” will cost $4.5 million to construct.
School officials say it will provide much needed economic opportunity and will help fill specialty and technical jobs in Armstrong County.
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At last night’s first full meeting of 2021, Lebanon City Council approved a formal application for a $2 million grant that would help underwrite renovations and a police garage as part of the City’s plan to buy the Harrisburg Area Community College building and move City Hall downtown.
The grant would be provided through the Commonwealth’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, known as RCAP, and had been tentatively approved last August.
City government offices have been in the Lebanon Municipal Building at 400 S. 8th Street since the 1960s, when they moved there from North 9th Street in downtown.
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City Council’s Ad Hoc City Hall Committee met Tuesday and honed in on two final options to remain at the current City Hall or to renovate office space the city owns at Trade and Transit Centre I or II.
“I think we are making progress to the point of completion for the committee,” said Councilman Adam Yoder, its chairman.
Short of a funding plan, which is estimated to be $4 million to $5 million for either option, the committee has narrowed its intent to either make a decision on staying at City Hall or moving the administrative offices to one of the transit buildings, with the exception of the Williamsport Bureau of Police.