Aug 2, 2016 2 min read

Downtown Donora will receive a new small park under a land swap deal funded by the Washington County Redevelopment Authority.

The borough will swap land it owns in the 700 block of McKean Avenue with the owner of a nearby former day care center, where the authority will invest $100,000 for the new project, using money from its federal Community Development Block Grant program, said Rob Phillips, an assistant community development director at the authority. The former day care center will be demolished under the plan.

Meanwhile, the Donora Community Center attached to the borough building at Sixth Street and Meldon Avenue will get a fresh coat of stucco-like material under a project whose CDBG budget will be increased from $40.000 to $61,000, association records indicate. That project still needs to receive more funding for its completion.

The authority is amending its consolidation plan to also increase CDBG budgets for projects in Mononogahela and Charleroi.

The demolition budget in Charleroi is increasing from $136,639 to $236,639 to raze the former Atlas building at Second Street and McKean Avenue and 516 Fallowfield Ave., an abandoned building whose roof collapsed last month.

A new $50,000 project in Monongahela involves the reconstruction of Hoon and Progress streets.

A new $25,000 project was created in Charleroi involving the reconstruction of Second Street between Hussey Street and the boat launch.

A public hearing on the changes has been scheduled for 9 a.m. Aug. 15 in Courthouse Square, 100 W. Beau St., Washington. The county commissioners are expected to consider the changes at 10 a.m. Sept. 1.