Grants for downtown housing in Schuylkill County

MAHANOY City, Pa. — The abandoned apartments above downtown organizations in Pottsville and Tamaqua are finding a increase thanks to a grant from the Pennsylvania Section of Community and Economic Growth (DCED) Keystone Communities Method.

“We’re hunting for good good quality housing in which people today can stay close to exactly where they do the job and so we uncovered a fifty percent million for Tamaqua and a fifty percent million for Pottsville to correct up some of these gorgeous old but vacant flats on the main road,” explained Senator David Argall, (R) 29th District.

Sen. Argall states this $1 million initiative will raise the number of marketplace-amount housing selections for the county’s increasing workforce.

This presents small business owners like James Connolly an opportunity to renovate a few floors of apartments that have been vacant for at the very least 50 years.

“Financially, this should impact all of the businesses all around right here. I indicate, the smaller enterprises mostly thrive on events that happen listed here, that provide folks into our town. If we can have them residing listed here, it is really a great deal greater,” mentioned Connolly.

Sen. Argall says increasing downtown livability in Pottsville and Tamaqua will boost the community financial state in bordering cities.

“These are men and women, they’re going to be living, learning, operating in downtown Pottsville in downtown Tamaqua. And the goal, of study course, is at the time Pottsville and Tamaqua determine it out, then we want to try out the identical detail in other communities across the region,” defined Sen. Argall.

If you are a area enterprise in Tamaqua or Pottsville and you want to see if you qualify for this grant, you can come across out additional data below. 

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