The City of Lancaster has been awarded a $500,000 grant to
support the construction of a new public works facility and will sell one of
its existing maintenance sites to the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology,
Gov. Tom Corbett announced this afternoon.
The Keystone Communities public improvement grant is from
Pennsylvania's Department of Community and Economic Development and is intended
to help the city consolidate property and lower costs, a news release said.
The city's new 35,000-square-foot facility will be built on
a 12.9-acre site at Grofftown Road, East Walnut Street and the Conestoga River,
the release said. Equipment, fleet vehicles and personnel currently housed in
three public works locations will be consolidated there.
Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray said in the release that the new
facility will be "safe and energy-efficient" and that “most
importantly, lower maintenance costs and centralized services will save
taxpayer dollars and improve customer service."
The former maintenance facility will be used as a learning
facility for TSCT, according to the release. No further details of the plan
were released.
Source: Central
Penn Business Journal
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