{"id":247246,"date":"2026-07-19T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247246\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:58:10","slug":"live-casino-pittsburgh-distributes-17m-in-grant-funds-to-westmoreland-county-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247246\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Casino Pittsburgh distributes $17M in grant funds to Westmoreland County communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">GREENSBURG, Pa.  \u2014 This week, Live Casino Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County announced its latest round of grant funding distributed to local communities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This time around, $17 million was distributed to Westmoreland County communities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This funding has been used to support community needs in a variety of ways, like police and fire department equipment, nonprofit projects, road resurfacing, bridge reconstruction, playground and park improvements and stormwater upgrades. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cComing out of the down years of COVID, this has kind of been of lifeblood,\u201d Greensburg City Councilman Gregory Mertz said. \u201cThe city was suckerpunched when things kind of shut down, lost a lot of revenue.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Since the casino began operating in 2020, Westmoreland County municipalities and organizations have received $75 million in funding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENSBURG, Pa. \u2014 This week, Live Casino Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County announced its latest round of grant funding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6100,105708,105707,139,859,73,75,74,420,43020,860],"class_list":["post-247246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-covid","tag-live_casino","tag-live_casino_pittsburgh","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-video","tag-westmoreland_county","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247246","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=247246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}