{"id":171495,"date":"2026-04-21T04:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171495\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:41:10","slug":"reading-receives-700k-grant-for-redevelopment-of-2-penn-street-buildings-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171495\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading receives $700K grant for redevelopment of 2 Penn Street buildings | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading is getting a big boost to redevelop more buildings on Penn Street.<\/p>\n<p>The state is giving the city $700,000 through the Pennsylvania House Finance Agency&#8217;s Community Revitalization Fund program.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to turn two vacant buildings, at 418 and 422 Penn St., into a mixed-use property, complete with 12 apartments and office space.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Mayor Eddie Moran says it&#8217;s &#8220;a great win for the city and another stronger step forward for our downtown.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading is getting a big boost to redevelop more buildings on Penn Street. The state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2005,28,76836,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-171495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-eddie-moran","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-house-finance-agency","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\/171495","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=171495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}