{"id":9728,"date":"2025-10-21T05:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/9728\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T05:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:33:06","slug":"reading-takes-next-steps-in-criz-program-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/9728\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading takes next steps in CRIZ program | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 Reading is gearing up for the next steps of the City Revitalization and Improvement Zone, or CRIZ program.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a state program that aims to revitalize cities by offering tax incentives to spur development.<\/p>\n<p>The state says it determined Reading&#8217;s CRIZ baseline is around $3.5 million. The\u00a0figure is a reference point for calculating annual growth in the zone, according to the state.<\/p>\n<p>It approved the program for 130 acres in Reading at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Reading is gearing up for the next steps of the City Revitalization and Improvement Zone,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2505,4469,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-9728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-city-revitalization-and-improvement-zone","tag-criz","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\/9728","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=9728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}