Gov. Ed Rendell yesterday completed a five-day swing across Western Pennsylvania, handing out more than $50 million in state funding for more than three dozen economic development projects, ranging from manufacturing and technology to education and the arts.
One of the biggest winners was Dick's Sporting Goods, which received a $10.85 million financial package to use for a significant expansion of the company's 200,000-square-foot corporate headquarters in Findlay.
The governor also made stops at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Neville Island and North Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, where he presented a $1 million grant for training employees at the Sony Technology Center complex.
Other grant recipients include the African-American Cultural Center, a complex planned for Downtown Pittsburgh, and the Horticultural Society of Western Pennsylvania, which will develop a 452-acre botanical garden on a former coal mining site in Settlers Cabin Park.
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