Benham: $1.1 million secured for District 36 projects
Will support church renovation, municipal building construction
Rep. Jessica Benham November 1, 2024 | 11:31 PM
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1 – More than $1 million in grant funding is coming back to the 36th Legislative District to support construction and renovation projects, state Rep. Jessica Benham announced today.
Benham said the funding includes $850,000 to WAG4 LP for the St. Peters Church Redevelopment project and $250,000 to Brentwood Borough to support construction of a new municipal building.
“I'm always looking for ways to make our community spaces more accessible," said Benham, D-Allegheny. "I'm pleased this new funding that Senator Costa and I secured is going to help transform the former St. Peters Church into a multi-use space for our friends and neighbors.”
Benham said the project will include interior demolition work to transform the building into new office spaces, medical rooms, a front entrance lobby, elevators and ADA accessible restrooms and features. In addition, the exterior façade will be restored and rehabbed, and a new drive-through with canopy will be constructed. New sidewalks will be constructed, and the existing parking lot will be upgraded and improved.
Benham said the grant funding to Brentwood Borough would support work on the borough’s new municipal offices as part of the Brentwood Borough Economic Development II project.
“With the former building already demolished and the site ready for new construction, I’m thrilled to see work moving forward.”
RACP funds design, acquisition and construction of regional economic, cultural, civic, recreational and historical improvement projects that have a regional impact and generate substantial increases or maintain current levels of employment, tax revenues or other measures of economic activity.