New LEED-certified EMTA HQ and bus maintenance and garage facility. This is a large 9-acre development near the downtown area. Will take up three long blocks at 14th & French St. (where the existing bus maintenance/storage facilities are) east all the way to Parade St. Highly controversial for the land grab, closing of a street (albeit little used), and demolition of 8 buildings. It's a needed project and it's good that Erie is receiving federal funding for it, but unfortunately, they knocked this 1924 cold storage building down in order to do it. Though, it was neglected for decades and these types of cold storage buildings are coming down all across the country... very hard to reuse for anything else but storage.
Two below views looking west from Parade St.:
Below is the schematic for the $32M first phase (1 block) from Parade to German St.:
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http://www.deltaone.com/Projects/Pro...nsit_Authority