Riverfront Park funding grows

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

The proposed South Shore Riverfront Park along the Monongahela River adjacent to the SouthSide Works development took another step forward yesterday when U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum delivered a check for $300,000 in federal funds to Pittsburgh's Urban Redevelopment Authority.

With yesterday's contribution, the URA and the Soffer Organization, which is developing SouthSide Works, have raised $750,000 in the past month for the project, which is expected to cost about $7.5 million and will be part of a 10-mile loop of riverfront parks and trails around the Downtown area known as Three Rivers Park.

After a series of neighborhood meetings in the past month, the developer is beginning preliminary designs for the park.

It is expected to have a boat dock and an amphitheater, among other elements.

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