FARRELL Council OKs development plan
A state grant of $500,000 will help finance the project.
FARRELL, Pa. -- City council has given its final approval to a redevelopment plan to expand a light-industrial area and improve a commercial district. Half of the $1 million project will come from a state capital budget grant that was approved for the city in May 2000.
However, to get that money, the city had to put together a redevelopment plan that is acceptable to the state.
That plan was approved by council Monday and will be sent to the state for review, said City Manager LaVon Saternow.
The city will take $300,000 from its industrial revolving loan fund and $200,000 from its federal Community Development Block Grant allocations to complete the financing.
Details
The plan shows redevelopment in two locations.
The first would expand Hillside Industrial Park overlooking Broadway Avenue in the city's Northwest Gardens area. That site is roughly bounded by French Street on the south, the rear of properties fronting on Broadway on the west, Florida Street on the north and Louisiana Avenue on the east.
The city will buy four occupied homes, two vacant homes and 23 empty lots, all of which will be converted into four large building parcels.
The second location is a commercial area along Idaho Street between Spearman and Fruit avenues.
The city will buy four vacant commercial properties and four vacant lots at that site. The lots will be cleared and combined with other city-owned property in the area and sold as seven parcels for commercial development.
There is no specific timetable for starting the project; it hinges on the state's review and approval of the redevelopment plan.