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Governor Josh Shapiro created the PA SITES program as part of a 10-Year Economic Development Strategy. PHOTO/PACAST
Berks, Bucks counties part of PA SITES Awards
Ed Gruver//October 10, 2025//
Berks and Bucks counties are among those hosting projects through the Shapiro Administration’s Pennsylvania Strategic Investments to Enhance Sites Awards.
Governor Josh Shapiro and Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Rick Siger announced that the commonwealth is investing over $39 million in 11 new projects through the Pennsylvania Strategic Investments to Enhance Sites (PA SITES) program to build more shovel-ready industrial sites across the commonwealth.
The program is aimed at helping attract businesses, investment, and jobs to Pennsylvania. Berks and Bucks counties are part of the new awards.
“When I came into office, I made it clear that Pennsylvania would compete again — and now we’re not just competing, we’re winning,” Shapiro said in a statement.
Said Siger, “Pennsylvania has many of the resources companies are looking for to grow – a skilled workforce, abundant natural resources, and a strategic location – but for too long, we lacked the ready-to-build sites that growing businesses need to make Pennsylvania their home. The governor created the PA SITES program as part of our 10-Year Economic Development Strategy to fix that — and these projects will create good jobs, expand opportunity, and strengthen Pennsylvania’s economy for years to come.”
Berks County received a $250,000 grant to the City of Reading for a comprehensive real estate plan on a city-owned 50-acre vacant property, known as the Dana site. The property is a legacy brownfield that previously housed industrial and manufacturing operations. The plan will include environmental reviews, evaluation of environmental constraints, confirmation of utility capacity, and to determine if utility systems require upgrades or reconfigurations based upon end user needs.
In Bucks County, a $150,000 grant to the Bucks County Industrial Development Authority to explore the feasibility of developing a new laboratory and office building on a 2.85-acre lot, directly across the street from the existing Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center campus on Old Easton Road in Buckingham Township. PA SITES funds would be used for engineering costs for the feasibility study.
