Pa. matching grants: Winners, losers
Pennsylvania has said "no" to all but $200 million of the $1.1 billion in bond-funded, taxpayer-financed matching grants that developers and nonprofits sought under the state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program last year.
Pennsylvania has said "no" to all but $200 million of the $1.1 billion in bond-funded, taxpayer-financed matching grants that developers and nonprofits sought under the state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program last year.
Below is the Wolf administration's list of projects getting cash gifts (and some that didn't) in the Philadelphia area.
Disappointed applicants can reapply. Some already have; others have multiple applications still in process.
Philadelphia
Yes to $10 million of the $25 million developer Liberty Property Trust asked for to pay "infrastructure costs" at Comcast Corp.'s $1.2 billion, 59-story Comcast Innovation and Technology Center tower.
Yes to all $5 million requested for Philadelphia Energy Solutions (Carlyle/Sunoco) to upgrade its 100,000-barrels-per-day Residual Fuel Catalytic Cracker.
Yes to $5 million of the $10 million Dietz & Watson asked for to move its warehouse and cold storage back to Northeast Philadelphia after its Delanco facility burned.
Yes to $5 million of the $20 million the Philadelphia Museum of Art wanted for its "Core Project" reconstruction.
Yes to $3.7 million of $4.9 million requested by the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corp. for its proposed Chinatown Community Center, with 143 housing units plus stores and recreational space. Anthony Rodham, Hillary Clinton's brother, handles marketing for the project.
Yes to $3.5 million of $5 million requested by EB Realty Management Corp. for the Arcade at the Divine Lorraine Hotel and renovations.
Yes to $2.5 million of $5 million requested by PREIT for renovations at the Gallery.
Yes to $2.5 million of the $5 million a developers group asked for to subsidize the East Market retail center at 11th and Market Streets.
Yes to $2.5 million of the $5 million Pennrose Development L.L.C. wanted for its "Equal Justice Center," a 54-unit senior citizens housing project
Yes to $1.5 million of the $5 million Thomas Jefferson University Health Obstetrics Program sought to move its Labor and Delivery unit at TJU's Center City campus
Yes to $500,000 for WHYY Inc. to replace carpets and other equipment.
No to $24.2 million for the 25-story 5.0 University Place and the 3.0 University Place office buildings proposed by lawyer Thomas Leonard and partners in University City.
No to $15 million that would have rehabbed Navy Yard Building 18 for Urban Outfitters Inc.
No for $10 million for Brown's SuperStores Inc.'s proposed ShopRites in Mantua and on North Broad Street.
No to $8 million for Independence Seaport Museum redevelopment.
No to $7 million for Brandywine Realty Trust's FMC Tower "tenant improvements" in University City.
No to $4 million for the $18.6 million proposed Granary Building office and retail redevelopment.
Bucks County
Yes for $3 million to help build St. Mary Rehabilitation Hospital, Middletown Township.
No to the Biotechnology Incubator expansion in Buckingham Township.
Chester County
Yes to $3.5 million to help move French insulation giant Saint-Gobain into the long-vacant National Liberty Corporate Campus, East Whiteland Township.
Yes to $2.5 million to help Sikorsky Global Helicopters tunnel under Washington Lane to connect its factory to a 12-acre expansion site by Chester County Airport.
No to $10.5 million that would subsidize developer Brian O'Neill's Uptown Worthington development.
No to $2.5 million for People's Light & Theatre Company improvements, East Whiteland Township.
Delaware County
Yes to $5 million for Brazil-based Braskem America to take over and update "the splitter units within Sunoco Inc.'s Marcus Hook refinery."
Yes to $5 million to help build a "restaurant with liquor" and stores at Ponds Edge Development, Middletown Township.
Yes to $2 million for SAP America Inc.'s data center at its Newtown Square headquarters.
No to $18 million for "infrastructure improvements" and a new heating and cooling system at Crozer-Chester Medical Center.
No to $17.6 million for a 125-room hotel, Tourist Attraction Center, two sound stages, and offices at Jeff Rotwitt's Sun Center II studio, Chester Township.
No to $10 million for Sunoco Inc.'s planned new headquarters combining two vacant buildings in Newtown Square.
No to $10 million for Villanova University to build parking lots and a garage.
Montgomery County
Yes to $3 million for Abington Health Cancer Center.
Yes to $2.5 million for developer Bill Glazer's Keystone Property Group to convert the former Verizon building into Conshohocken Borough Hall and police station
Yes to $500,000 toward Elon Group's $5 million redevelopment of Montgomery Park into 100 units of affordable housing and an elder care center at the former Montgomery Hospital, Norristown.