{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/fetterman-casey-lee-announce-2-million-for-pittsburghs-penn-avenue-cap-connector-project/", "Fetterman, Casey, Lee Announce $2 Million for Pittsburgh\u2019s Penn Avenue Cap Connector Project", "2024-03-12", "2024", "2024-03", "Democrat", "Senate", "PA", "John Fetterman", "F000479", "www.fetterman.senate.gov", "fetterman", "https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/press-release/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, U.S. Senators John Fetterman and Bob Casey, and Representative Summer Lee announced that Allegheny County will receive $2 million through the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) grant program. The funding will support the Penn Avenue Cap Connector Project.\n\nThe Penn Avenue Cap Connector Project aims to connect economically-disadvantaged communities in Pittsburgh to public transit, grocery stores, services, and jobs. Specifically, the project will make the Penn Avenue-Shady Avenue Intersection a major gateway to the East Liberty Transit Station, and connect two neighborhoods\u2014the East Liberty Business District and Bakery Square\u2014across the void of a busway.\n\n\u201cThis is a critical investment in communities in Pittsburgh that have been left behind,\u201d said Senator Fetterman. \u201cThe Penn Avenue Cap Connector Project will help connect countless Pennsylvanians to economic opportunities, public transit options, and grocery stores that they have been cut off from for too long. I\u2019m proud to be fighting for and delivering these federal dollars to invest into Pennsylvania communities.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis funding is a critical step towards righting a wrong that has stifled economic growth in Pittsburgh\u2019s East Liberty neighborhood and left residents cut off from transit and key economic opportunities,\u201d said Senator Casey (D-PA). \u201cI fought for this funding to put the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to work to reconnect these communities and help build a more livable and prosperous Pittsburgh.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m proud to announce our second Reconnecting Communities Pilot Grant \u2013 this time $2M for the Penn Avenue Cap Connector Project to connect families and small businesses in bakery square with the grocery stores, transit, and jobs in the East Liberty Business district,\u201d said Rep. Summer Lee. \u201cBy working with the Biden administration to build on the $1.4 million investment Sen. Casey and I delivered one year ago to reconnect Pittsburgh\u2019s North Side and Chateau neighborhoods, we\u2019re righting the wrongs of economic redlining that has forced Black, brown, working class and poor folks to live in food, hospital, and transportation deserts. I will continue fighting to make sure all of our families can stay in the communities they call home with access to all the resources and infrastructure necessary to thrive.\u201d\n\nFetterman, Casey, and Lee secured this grant through the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s (DOT) Reconnecting Communities Pilot grant program, created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Reconnecting Communities is the first-ever federal program dedicated to reconnecting communities that were previously cut off from economic opportunities and otherwise burdened by past transportation infrastructure decisions.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T20:32:04Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/fetterman-casey-lee-announce-2-million-for-pittsburghs-penn-avenue-cap-connector-project/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7807158399373293, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}