City Budget Includes Funding for Brookline Blvd. Project

Work on the Brookline Boulevard project is scheduled to start in the spring of 2013.

The Brookline Boulevard redevelopment project—which has been in the works for nearly 15 years—is scheduled to get its feet off the ground, and has funding to support it.  John Fournier, chief of staff for city Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak, said the City of Pittsburgh’s 2012 capital budget includes $750,000 for the project. “Physical construction hasn’t started yet, but the process for a project like this is pretty long,” he said. “It’s a major thoroughfare so the state has to sign off on it.” The total cost of the project is $6.4 million, he said, and will be funded partially through the city’s capital improvement budget and partially with money from the state. Work is scheduled to start in the spring of 2013 and wrap up by the fall of 2013…

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