City gets $2.1 million grant

The city has received a $2.1 million grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development's Neighborhood Stabilization Program, part of $57 million being allocated to communities across the state in the wake of the national foreclosure crisis.

The money will be used to purchase blighted and foreclosed properties for demolition or renovation in three areas:

-Between State Street and East Avenue, from East Fifth Street to the bayfront. The area is largely covered by the Bayfront East Side Task Force, or B.E.S.T., a nonprofit neighborhood-revitalization group.

-The Little Italy neighborhood, between Cranberry and State streets, from West 19th to West 12th streets.

-The central city/midtown neighborhood. For the purposes of the grant, it's an irregularly shaped area that runs from State Street as far east as Elm Street, as far north as East 12th Street and as far south as East 33rd Street.

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