Gov. Tom Corbett awarded 58 new grants from the state
Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, including four projects in Monroe and
Northampton counties.
The Anderson Campus at St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem
Township earned $800,000 to expand its fourth floor patient care room. Also, in
Northampton County, Majestic Realty Co. earned $5 million to continue to extend
and improve infrastructure to Majestic Bethlehem Center in Lehigh Valley
Industrial Park VII in Bethlehem.
Jay Pagni, spokesman for the governor's office, said
Majestic received $5 million during the last round of awards.
The program provides grants to local communities for the
construction of regional economic, cultural, civic, recreational and historical
improvement projects.
"The projects are evaluated and awarded on a variety of
criteria and among those criteria are job creation, economic development and
what the impact is to the surrounding region," said Pagni.
He told Lehigh Valley Business this morning that the
projects are awarded based on those that create jobs, improve the community and
"make Pennsylvania a competitive state in which companies would want to
set up shop."
In Monroe County, the county's transportation authority
received $2 million for the Route 611 corridor natural gas line extension while
the Monroe County Industrial Development Authority received $3 million for the
Coolbaugh/Tobyhanna natural gas line extension.
The next round of grant applications opens Jan. 6, 2014.
Source: LVB.com
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