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Norristown seeks $250,000 Montco grant to continue Arch Street Greenway; awards $144,481 to Pennoni for design work

2511444 · March 6, 2025
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Council authorized submission of a $250,000 Montco 2040 implementation grant for phases 3–4 of the Arch Street Greenway and approved a $144,481 contract with Pennoni Associates for professional services to support those phases.

Norristown Municipal Council on March 4 authorized staff to submit a $250,000 application to Montgomery County’s Montco 2040 Implementation Grant Program to continue the Arch Street Greenway and approved a $144,481 professional-services award to Pennoni Associates for design and project administration for phases 3 and 4.

The grant request, if awarded, would add to roughly $1.5 million in federal funds the municipality has secured for the project; staff said the combined funding would allow construction to extend the greenway to Oak Street. “If we apply for this $250,000 to add to the $1,500,000, we will have $1,700,000, which is the furthest we will take for quite a while,” said…

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