Oncologists, film lovers, and train enthusiasts all have reason to celebrate.
Local resources and institutions like Carnegie Music Hall and Allegheny General Hospital are set to receive millions of dollars in funding as part of the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program.
The grants, which have been awarded every year since 1986, are given to a wide variety of businesses and projects around the state. Eligibility is broadly defined as projects that “have a regional or multi-jurisdictional impact, and generate substantial increases or maintain current levels of employment, tax revenues, or other measures of economic activity,” according to the state budget office.
$1 million to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to build a movie theater on 6th street in Downtown.
$1.5 million to redevelop the Wilkinsburg train station.
$750,000 for the installation artist James Turrell to create a “skyspace” on the roof of the Mattress Factory Museum in the North Side.
$2 million to rehabilitate the historic Granada Theater in the Hill District.
$1 million to the Oliver Bath House in the South Side to expand and make the space for handicapped accessible.
$500,000 for improvements along the Strip District riverbank.
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