ECRDA News

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.

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

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

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.

Today, Tina Mengine, CEO of Erie County Redevelopment Authority (ECRDA), announced the ECRDA’s 2023 2nd quarter lending at $2,731,600 secured its first half lending total of $7,585,109 as the strongest in its history.