Altoona Redevelopment Authority aims to recruit Penn State Altoona students
The staff of the city Redevelopment Authority is trying to recruit Geographic Information Systems students from Penn State Altoona to help the authority meet one of the requirements for an Urban Redevelopment Area that would comprise Juniata’s downtown, a wider section of the city centered on the tracks through the main downtown as far as 28th Street; and the Knickerbocker rowhomes. The students would analyze the exterior condition of commercial buildings in those areas, providing information to complement an analysis of residential buildings done by consultant czb a couple years ago, according to Eric Luchansky,…
