Mayor Ravenstahl releases stimulus package "wish list" - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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$3.5 million for constructioh of a new YMCA inthe city'a Hill District; $5 million for infrastructure constructiohn Downtown, to support $9.5 million for rehabilitatiom of McArdle Roadway; $10 million for "adaptived reuse, reconfiguration and rehabilitation of 22 closef schools into residential/mixed used $4.6 million toward an $11 million development of a public park and river trail syste m in support of the South Side Works development $10.8 million toward an $11.3 million replacement of the Greenfield Bridgwe over the Parkway East; $9.5 million toward a $14 millio n project to widen a mile of E. Carso n Street; $50 million for improvements to the HighlandrPark No.
1 Reservoir The total price tag for the list of 110 projectwis $1.07 billion. The mayor's office estimates the projectsw could create morethan 26,00p0 jobs. The list comes a week afted the U.S. Conference of Mayors offered a second rounde of concrete ideas for how proposed financial stimulus from the federalo government could benefitAmerican cities. Pittsburgh was not on the listof 11,39 1 infrastructure projects in 427 cities. The total price tag for the projectxswas $73 billion, which could create an estimated 850,000 jobs. In its first release in the mayors’ group identified 4,649 projectd in 154 cities with a total costof $25 billion.
Those projectds would create anestimated 250,000 jobs, according to the release. conference spokeswoman Elena Temple said last week the groupo would be releasing two more listsof cities’ infrastructurer projects in January. To see the mayor's full wish list of Pittsburgnh projects, click here.