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Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue Pat Browne<\/a>\u00a0said that $16.2 million will be returned to three communities participating in the\u00a0City Revitalization and Improvement Zone (CRIZ) program. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n The program helps Pennsylvania municipalities that have faced economic challenges to revitalize vacant or rundown spaces with the goal of attracting new businesses and creating jobs.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Bethlehem<\/a> will receive $2.052 million. Lancaster<\/a> will receive $12.186 million, and Tamaqua<\/a> will receive $2.001 million.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0Additionally, the Department of Revenue has established the state tax baselines for two additional cities, Erie<\/a> and Reading<\/a>,\u00a0that were approved for the CRIZ program<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u201cSince its inception, the CRIZ program has delivered a total of nearly $102 million to participating communities, helping them to attract development, revitalize their downtowns, and bring new jobs to their regions,\u201d said\u00a0Browne. \u201cThis program is a proven model that has been a critical tool for growth in Bethlehem, Lancaster, and Tamaqua. Recognizing this success,\u00a0Governor Shapiro\u00a0worked to reopen the program and open the door for more communities to apply. That historic step was a gamechanger for both Erie and Reading, and we\u2019re excited to see the program support economic development<\/a> in both cities.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u00a0The CRIZ program was reopened in the latest state budget, which allowed new qualified communities to participate in the program for the first time since its inception in 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0Applications from Erie and Reading were both approved, paving the way for both cities to benefit from the CRIZ program. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue Pat Browne\u00a0said that $16.2 million will be returned to three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[153,12213,1160,136,138,137,2002,12214,12215,3147,736,12216,6452],"class_list":["post-16807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-bethlehem","tag-criz-program","tag-economic-development","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-lancaster","tag-pat-browne","tag-pennsylvania-department-of-revenue","tag-pennsylvania-economy","tag-reading","tag-revitalization-funding","tag-tamaqua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807","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=16807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}