{"id":155350,"date":"2026-04-02T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155350\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:00:32","slug":"reading-receives-250k-state-grant-to-develop-plan-for-former-dana-site-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155350\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading receives $250k state grant to develop plan for former Dana site | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading is getting a state grant to come up with a comprehensive real estate plan for the former Dana site.<\/p>\n<p>The state awarded $250,000 dollars to the city to make a plan for the 50-acre vacant property.<\/p>\n<p>The property is classified as a brownfield site and previously housed industrial and manufacturing operations.<\/p>\n<p>The plan will include environmental reviews and determining if utility systems need to be upgraded.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of eleven projects getting a combined $39 million dollars in state funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading is getting a state grant to come up with a comprehensive real estate plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[70390,61892,70391,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-155350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-brownfield-site","tag-dana","tag-manufacturing-operations","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}