Four Erie County projects will receive $12.5 million in state funding for economic development, public safety and facility improvements, state Reps. Ryan Bizzarro, Pat Harkins and Bob Merski announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Erie County Convention Center Authority will receive $9.5 million to construct the Bayfront Market House and a surface parking area. The building will include space for seasonal and permanent tenants, two year-round tenants and two public event spaces on the second floor.<\/p>\n
Mercyhurst University will receive $2 million to replace failing roof systems at its athletic center.<\/p>\n
Federal Resources Corporation was awarded $500,000 to renovate the third floor of the Mercantile Building into a modern office headquarters. The work will include structural reinforcement and new heating, cooling, plumbing, electrical and fire protection systems.<\/p>\n
The City of Corry will receive $500,000 toward construction of a new Public Safety Building for its police and fire departments.<\/p>\n
The funding comes through Pennsylvania\u2019s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, which supports regional economic, cultural, civic, recreational and historical projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Erie County projects will receive $12.5 million in state funding for economic development, public safety and facility…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6534,105179,1160,136,142,138,137,105178,102085,6895,294,89690,892],"class_list":["post-245809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-bayfront-market-house","tag-city-of-corry","tag-economic-development","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-facility-improvements","tag-federal-resources-corporation","tag-mercyhurst-university","tag-public-safety","tag-redevelopment-assistance-capital-program","tag-state-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245809","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=245809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}