State Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R-46) announced four Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) grants totaling more than $2.5 million will go to the 46th District.
The grants, administered by the Pennsylvania Office of the Budget, can be used on the acquisition and construction of regional economic, cultural, civic, recreational and historical improvement projects. Bartolotta said the funding would benefit industrial revitalization/economic development, tourism and drug treatment.
“This grant funding will help to increase local employment levels and tax revenues – two initiatives that could greatly benefit the 46thDistrict,” Bartolotta said. “The funding is truly an investment in the future of southwestern Pennsylvania.”
One of the grants, for $1 million, was awarded to the Ohio Riverfront Industrial Development to redevelop and remediate a 40-acre industrial site and construct a 250,000-square foot high-tech manufacturing building. Another grant, for $500,000, was awarded to Atlas Metal Revitalization for a project that will refurbish and upgrade bridge milling machines, as well as allow for the purchasing of several other pieces of machinery.
A $500,000 grant was also awarded to the Liberty Pole Spirits Racetrack Road Expansion, to allow for the purchase of a two-acre parcel that will become a 3-building whiskey distillery campus, with an outdoor seating area with room for food truck parking.
And $500,000 in grant money will go to the Detox Unit at Monongahela Valley Hospital to renovate an estimated 9,100-square-feet of inpatient space on the seventh floor to convert it into a secure 14-bed inpatient detoxification unit.