ECRDA News

In its seventh round of StARTup Business Development Grant Awards, the ECRDA announced grant awards totaling $27,500 to six applicants.

It's expected to take decades and millions of dollars to clean up the site. In less than 2½ years, the Erie County Redevelopment Authority purchased the former Erie Malleable Iron Co. complex, tore down some of the buildings and completed an extensive environmental cleanup.

ECRDA CEO Tina Mengine talks Ironworks Square and other options for shovel-ready land.

A retail space is planned for the first floor of the renovated Avalon Hotel in downtown Erie.

After months of knocking over walls, hauling away debris and squeezing a portion of eastbound West 12th Street into just one lane, demolition of the former Erie Malleable Iron Co. site is complete.