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Budget Fuss: Every last Philly RACP project, just in case you were curious
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Budget Fuss: Every last Philly RACP project, just in case you were curious
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| Evan Lopez |
You already know that the new state budget means lots of cash for new prisons, $5.5 million in library cuts and $1.1 million in child care cuts. But what about everything else? In our new feature Budget Fuss, we'll be looking at lesser-reported casualties (and gains — all two of them) in the state budget.
In this week's A Million Stories, we explored the $308 million going toward the state's Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP), which provides grants for beneficiaries who match the state's buy-in dollar-for-dollar. Gov. Ed Rendell and supporters say RACP is a way to create jobs; critics say it's a way to buy votes and show clout, and that if you want to create jobs, there are better ways to do it than building a library named after Sen. Arlen Specter.
We told you a few of our favorite RACP projects — $2 million going to Antrim Township for, well, the state doesn't know yet; $5 million for the "redevelopment of an abandoned historic former schoolhouse" in Luzerne County; $3 million going to a rec center at King's College, a private Catholic school with 2,200 students — but what about all the rest?
Here's every last RACP project in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties, just in case your wonky self wanted to know (and FYI, if you want to see all RACP projects in the entire state, go here, to section 6).
For Philly:
$20 million: Acquisition, infrastructure, construction and other related costs for the American Revolution Center
$5 million: Construction, infrastructure and other related costs for mixed-use development on Gray's Ferry Corridor
$10 million: Construction of a Comprehensive Applied Research/Educational facility at Drexel University, including related costs
$15 million: Acquisition, infrastructure, construction and other related costs for redevelopment of the Tasty Baking Co. facility at Fox and Roberts Streets, including adjacent areas
$5 million: Acquisition, infrastructure, construction and other related costs for Norris Square Civic Association's mixed-use complex
$1 million: Infrastructure, construction and other related costs for an inpatient specialty hospital at the Wills Eye Institute
$7.5 million: Acquisition, infrastructure, construction and other related costs for a facility at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for commercial, industrial or multipurpose use
$5 million: Acquisition, infrastructure, construction and other related costs for development by ASPIRA, Inc., of Philadelphia at the Cardinal Dougherty High School
$5 million: Infrastructure, construction, renovation and other related costs for the Independence Visitor Center
$10 million: Construction, demolition, land acquisition, infrastructure, redevelopment and other related costs for Philadelphia University, including the Arlen Specter Library
$750,000: Land acquisition, site preparation, renovation, demolition, construction, infrastructure and other related costs for campus expansion and facility improvements at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
$10 million: Construction and other related costs for mixed-use retail and hotel project at Fourth and Race Streets
$3 million: Construction, infrastructure, redevelopment and other related costs for a new Community Legal Services building
For Bucks County:
$340,000: Rehabilitate track and install unloading equipment at Junell Corporaiton/Adv. Lube
$5 million: Construction, renovations and infrastructure improvements in the Bucks County Enterprise Zone
$15 million: Construction, infrastructure and other related costs at the Keystone Industrial Port Complex
For Delaware County:
$10 million: Rehabilitation and enhancement of the Union Square Neighborhood Revitalization District, including blight removal, streetscape remediation and new construction
$5 million: Acquisition, construction, infrastructure and other related costs for the retail development of a 35-acre site in Upper Darby
For Montgomery County:
$1.5 million: Construction, renovations and infrastructure improvements for an industrial facility
$7.5 million: Acquisition, construction and other related costs for a mixed-use commercial/retail development within the boundary of Fornance, Wood and Locust streets
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