{"id":283354,"date":"2026-09-10T23:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283354\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:34:12","slug":"pennsylvania-invests-100-million-to-revitalize-chester-delaware-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283354\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania invests $100 million to revitalize Chester, Delaware County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania invests $100 million to revitalize Chester, Delaware County<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9\" aria-label=\"Tasmin Mahfuz profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789083252_848_ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9_1718896865.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Tasmin Mahfuz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>CHESTER, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Pennsylvania has launched a $100 million revitalization effort in Chester, Delaware County, with public and private investments aimed at improved infrastructure, safety, and addressing community challenges.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Governor Josh Shapiro and other community leaders spoke about the initiative Thursday, which will fund improvements to local road and pedestrian infrastructure, increased support for violence prevention programs, and expanded blight remediation efforts.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;We came here to listen. We came here to learn. And we came here to help through that process. We have seen big changes in the way local leaders are approaching the challenges that this city is facing. What I&#8217;ve seen over the last year or so is a pride that has reemerged in this community, a sense of togetherness,&#8221; Shapiro said.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The largest portion of the funding will be used to redesign and revamp a section of Route 291 that runs through Chester&#8217;s downtown to increase safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania invests $100 million to revitalize Chester, Delaware County CHESTER, Pa. \u2014 Pennsylvania has launched a $100 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[118170,211,212,451,28,30,29,118171],"class_list":["post-283354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-100-million-revitalization-effort","tag-chester","tag-delaware-county","tag-governor-josh-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-route-291"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283354","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=283354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}