Cephas announces redevelopment grant awarded

HARRISBURG, Nov. 1 – Pa. state Rep. Morgan Cephas, D-Phila., today announced a $750,000 grant was awarded by Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program to the Cobbs Creek Foundation to help with its Cobbs Creek stream restoration project.

Cephas provided the below statement on the award:

“I’m thrilled to see these funds going to the continued redevelopment of the Cobbs Creek stream, which is a key recreational and ecological area in West and Southwest Philadelphia. It’s crucial that we work to restore this floodplain and uplift our environmental systems for improved watershed conditions in our predominantly urban area.”

The Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program is a Pennsylvania grant program for the design, acquisition, and construction of regional economic, cultural, civic, recreational, and historical improvement projects. RACP projects have a regional impact and generate substantial increases or maintain current levels of employment, tax revenues, or other measures of economic activity. RACP projects are state-funded projects that cannot obtain primary funding under other state programs.