MOON TOWNSHIP, PA — Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) announced a multi-million-dollar federal investment to the Moon Transportation Authority for reconstruction efforts at Montour Run Road and Market Place Boulevard roadways. He was joined for this announcement by County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, Moon Township Board of Supervisors Member and President of Moon Transportation Authority’s Board of Directors John Hertzer, and Moon Transportation Authority Executive Director Lynn Colosi.
These funds will allow Moon Township to fight traffic and enhance and upgrade state and local roads that will facilitate the next phases of construction on the new Moon Township Marketplace District. This district is a transformative, mixed-use development project that will create jobs, new businesses, commercial areas, and housing in the region.
“The people of Western Pennsylvania deserve infrastructure they can count on, that connects communities, and that supports safe transportation in every form,” said Rep. Deluzio. “The Marketplace District marks an exciting new chapter for Moon Township, one with a bold new community and that grows our local economy. As this new development project reaches its final stages, I am proud that $3.5 million in congressional, federal investments will go toward critical road upgrades that will safely connect this new community with the wider region.”
The $3.5 million dollars in congressional Fiscal Year 2023 Community Project Funding that Congressman Deluzio announced today will allow Moon Township to upgrade 1.25 miles of both a state-owned arterial (Montour Run) and a locally owned road (Market Place Boulevard) to facilitate private development of Marketplace District. Congressman Deluzio commended his predecessor, former Congressman Conor Lamb, for his support of this project in the last session of Congress.
Marketplace District Transportation Improvements is a 1.25-mile reconstruction of Montour Run Road, which includes adding through lanes and turn lanes, and upgrading intersections, and a quarter-mile reconstruction of Market Place Boulevard, which includes road widening, adding turn lanes, and installing sidewalk, all of which are required to enable private development of 700-acres at Marketplace District, Moon Township.
- Access– Establishes multimodal access to the 700-acre Marketplace District site especially to the 300-acre Diamond Ridge Master Plan plus an additional 400-acres of land-locked properties.
- Traffic– Through and turn lanes will be added to Montour Run Road to accommodate 13,000 vehicles traveling daily through the Project area and the increase in traffic forecasted from new development.
- Safety– Will implement modern transportation infrastructure and technology to decrease crash rates in the Project area (1.82 crashes per one million vehicle miles of travel), which exceed statewide average rate (1.3-1.7) for similar roadways.
The overall economic activity at the new Marketplace District in Moon Township is forecasted to bring back $14 million in taxes every year to local and state governments. The Marketplace District also includes hundreds of new housing units, both in the form of apartments and single-family homes. New businesses and recreation areas are also part of this mixed-use development plan. The Marketplace District is expected to create more than 1,900 direct construction jobs and more than 1,500 ongoing, permanent jobs.