Category: Projects
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The Banners are Coming, the Banners are Coming!
Published first on the Progress News, May 17, 2021 The last year caused the postponement or cancellation of a lot of events and projects, including many we had lined up in local redevelopment. Some of those, like the school farm initiative, are finally underway (hooray!!), and others, such as kids’ kung fu classes, will be Read more
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The Farm a Community Built
Published first on the Progress News, May 10, 2021 More than a year and a half ago, Dr. David McDeavitt and I had a dream: to create a space on school grounds that would allow everyone from our community to come together, sleeves up, working and learning and growing. Public school, home school, or well Read more
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Behind the Scenes
Published first on the Progress News, May 3, 2021 Today I’d like to give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of one of the most involved and hard-hitting parts of redevelopment work. This is an area that most folks don’t get the chance to experience, a hidden world of back-room meetings and urgent phone Read more
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ACV’s School Farm Project
Published first on the Progress News, March 15, 2021 This time last year, I was thanking folks for offering to donate items to our School Farm project and looking forward to getting our hands dirty by late March. Welp…2020 sure threw a wrench in the works. But, here we are, exactly one year later, finally Read more
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Redevelopment Success
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EPA Project Kick-off
Published first on the Progress News, November 16, 2020 Thursday, November 5th, was a momentous day for local Redevelopment. After a year of grant-writing, waiting, strategizing, more waiting, and logistical planning, we finally had boots on the ground for the official kick-off of our EPA-funded Community-Wide Brownfield project. Joining me on the day were the Read more
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Request for Proposals for Environmental Engineering Services to Perform Brownfield Assessments
The Oil Region Alliance received a FY20 Brownfields Community-Wide Assessment grant from the EPA for environmental investigations and remedial planning activities. This RFP has been issued to determine the eligibility of applicants to assist in the development and management of this project. A mandatory pre-submission conference will be held on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, at 2 p.m. EDT Read more
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Oil Region Alliance Receives $300,000 for Brownfield Redevelopment in Allegheny-Clarion River Valley from EPA
OIL CITY, PA – The Oil Region Alliance of Business, Industry and Tourism received a $300,000 assessment grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for brownfield redevelopment in the Allegheny-Clarion River (A-C) Valley Wednesday. The EPA defines brownfields as properties whose expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of Read more
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Banner Contest Winners
We have our winners! Many thanks to the talented artists who entered the ACRVR Blueprint Community Poster Contest. The winners are: Maiah Kriebel of St. PetersburgKeira McVay of ParkerEvelyn Ruckdeschel of EmlentonSummer Young of Emlenton These young artists will now work together with the Blueprint team to refine their ideas into a 4-part, seasonal banner Read more
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New Banner Design Contest
Happy New Year from the ACRVR Blueprint Team! To celebrate new beginnings and the promise of the future, we are excited to announce a competition to select the artists who will design the ACRVR Blueprint Community banner for 2020. If you are a local artist under 20, we want to see YOUR vision for the Read more