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Heritage Rail Trail: Economic Alliance helping York County businesses connect with half a million users York Dispatch Twelve local businesses along the York County Heritage Rail Trail are getting a boost from the York County Economic Alliance. As part of its York County Trail Towns program, the YCEA announced during a Tuesday news conference that the businesses will share $25,000 in Bloom Grants. The grants range from $500 to $5,000, and the 12 businesses were selected out of 19 applicants. We are primarily granting to businesses in our trail towns along the York Heritage Rail Trail, said Silas Chamberlin, YCEA vice president for economic development. And the funds are intended to help these businesses add services or marketing or otherwise try to tap into the roughly half a million people who visit the Heritage Rail Trail every year. ....
Can Dig-Once Policies Hasten the Close of the Digital Divide? “Dig once” suggests that it makes more sense to lay the groundwork for broadband expansion through larger transportation projects. But should this forward-thinking idea be mandated or considered a best practice? Shutterstock/Fahroni As local areas and states keep slugging away at the digital divide, time and money may separate the winners from the losers in the broadband infrastructure game. One potential way to save time and money is through a “dig-once” approach, which refers to the idea of minimizing “the number and scale of excavations when installing telecommunications infrastructure in highway rights-of-way,” according to the Federal Highway Administration. ....
CARES Money for Broadband: Insights Gained from County Projects The proposition of pursuing funding for broadband can seem unwise when a short timeline is involved. Here are lessons learned from counties that had to spend CARES dollars in the face of a fast construction deadline. Shutterstock In 2020, states directed millions of Coronavirus, Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds toward broadband infrastructure. While any money for high-speed Internet is a good thing, these dollars initially came with an aggressive December 2020 deadline, meaning that some local stakeholders were better positioned than others to take on the timeline burden. Jessica Fowler is the chief client officer for Lit Communities, a company that helps local areas plan for and deploy fiber networks. She said the CARES legislation was well intentioned, but she felt it wasn’t written with a firm understanding of what it takes to complete a connectivity project. In ....
Former York Post Office back on the market for $1.79M RSDC seeks buyer to redevelop historic building May 8, 2018 5:55 pm One of York City’s most notable historic buildings is back on the market – for a limited time. ROCK Commercial Real Estate LLC listed the former Post Office on 200 S. George St. for $1,795,000 this past week. After six months of negotiation, York development firm Royal Square Development & Construction (RSDC) entered into an equitable ownership agreement for the property with its current owner, Hashempour & Sons LLC. Under the agreement, RSDC takes an ownership stake in the building through Aug. 31 while it looks for a potential buyer with intentions of redeveloping the South George Street property, said Dylan Bauer, RSDC’s president of development. Bauer declined to discuss other details of the deal. ....