{"id":92070,"date":"2026-01-20T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:12:10","slug":"state-grants-funding-for-gerry-street-connector-project-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92070\/","title":{"rendered":"State grants funding for Gerry Street Connector Project | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The state is giving nearly a quarter of a million dollars to make it easier to access a shopping center in southwest Reading.<\/p>\n<p>The Gerry Street Connector Project was awarded $242,596 in grant funding from the Commonwealth Financing Authority and aims to create a walking trail linking Gerry Street to Lancaster Avenue Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis funding will deliver a vital pedestrian connector for our community,\u201d said State Rep. Manny Guzman (D &#8211; Berks,) who helped secure the funding. \u201cThe Gerry Street Connector Project will improve safety, accessibility and connectivity for residents and visitors, while strengthening links between our neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>The shopping center is home to the Ideal Food Basket grocery store and several restaurants and other shops.<\/p>\n<p>It opened in 2020 at the former A.W. Golden dealership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The state is giving nearly a quarter of a million dollars to make it easier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[34390,45391,45392,32596,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-92070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-commonwealth-financing-authority","9":"tag-gerry-street","10":"tag-lancaster-avenue-plaza","11":"tag-manny-guzman","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-reading","14":"tag-reading-city","15":"tag-reading-city-headlines","16":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92070","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=92070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}