{"id":179980,"date":"2026-04-30T05:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179980\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:15:07","slug":"business-owners-aspiring-entrepreneurs-learn-about-reading-criz-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179980\/","title":{"rendered":"Business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs learn about Reading CRIZ | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 Business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs are learning the basics of being part of the City Revitalization and Improvement Zone program.<\/p>\n<p>The city hosted a session at the Berks County Community Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>They talked about how to apply, what types of projects qualify, and the annual reporting process.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.readingpa.gov\/city-revitalization-and-improvement-zone-authority\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CRIZ designation<\/a> means 130 acres are able to be developed with special tax breaks where revenue generated in the zone will be reinvested in the zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs are learning the basics of being part of the City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[76152,29446,2505,4469,5398,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-179980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county-community-foundation","tag-business-owners","tag-city-revitalization-and-improvement-zone","tag-criz","tag-entrepreneurs","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\/179980","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=179980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}