A total of 26 projects across Erie County will receive over $3.3 million in tax credits to revitalize neighborhoods, expand access to education, enhance job training, and improve healthcare facilities and services.

The projects approved include $17,875 in tax credits for the Erie Cancer Wellness Center. Other tax credits include: 

  • $642,400 Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest PA
  • $500,000 Renovation of Renaissance Centre, Erie
  • $280,000 Bayfront East Side Taskforce
  • $273,750 Minority Community Investment Coalition
  • $220,000 Gannon University (West Bayfront neighborhood improvement)
  • $206,250 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center
  • $174,572 Two Penny Group, PSNERGY
  • $160,000 SSJ Neighborhood Network (vacant lot maintenance)
  • $136,000 Erie Center for Arts & Technology
  • $101,625 Mercy Center For Women
  • $79,500 Crime Victim Center of Erie County
  • $75,000 Erie Downtown Partnership
  • $71,500 Sarah A. Reed Children's Center
  • $68,750 Erie Neighborhood Growth Partnership
  • $63,750 Erie Dawn
  • $52,500 St. Martin Center
  • $41,250 SSJ Neighborhood Network (revitalization projects)
  • $37,500 Climate Changers
  • $35,750 Erie Playhouse
  • $27,500 Erie United Methodist Alliance
  • $27,500 Gannon University (Planting for Our Future Environmental Complex)
  • $23,650 expERIEnce Children's Museum
  • $18,945 United Way of Erie County
  • $17,875 Erie Cancer Wellness Center
  • $15,000 Our West Bayfront
  • $11,475 Julia Hospice and Palliative Care

The projects were approved by the Department of Community and Economic Development through the Neighborhood Assistance Program.