Bids Requested – Contractors for Home Rehab Project in Pittston

The Redevelopment Authority is accepting contractor bids on a home rehab project in Pittston. Please see below scope of work documents and reach out to Cara at cwengen@pittstonrda.com or 570-654-4601 ext 245 to request a full bid packet. Arrangements can be made to do a site visit to the home to prepare your bid.

Work includes:

  • Replacing Siding
  • Replacing (3) Exterior Doors
  • Replacing Rear Storm Door
  • Replacing (10) Double Hung Windows
  • Replacing (1) casement window in bathroom

Holiday Home Decorating Contest – Enter Today!

Do you have the most festive house in the neighborhood? Let’s see it! The Pittston Office of Community Development invites Pittston residents to participate in our Holiday Home Decorating Contest. One winner will be chosen from the following categories:

  • Best Themed Décor
  • Best Classic Holiday
  • Best In Show

To enter your home, please complete the following form. Deadline to submit entries is Wednesday, December 22nd. Winners will be announced on Thursday, December 23rd and prizes will distributed after the holiday!

Request For Proposal – Developers Needed for Home Rehabilitation

The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Pittston is inviting development teams (or a
developer) with experience in single family home rehabilitation to submit proposals for
the Rehabilitation Toward Homeownership for 65-67 ½ Parsonage Street, Pittston,
Pennsylvania (72-E11NE2-024-005-000).

All proposals for this project are due by 12:00Noon on Thursday, December 23, 2021. 

For extensive information on this project and it’s requirements, please view the formal Request for Proposals below.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS-65 PARSONAGE

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS – PROFESSIONAL HOUSING CONSULTING SERVICES

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS – PROFESSIONAL HOUSING CONSULTING SERVICES

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittston requests proposals from qualified consulting firms to provide professional housing consulting services relative to the development of affordable homeownership and rental housing. The Authority intends to designate a consultant for the three year period 2022 through 2024. The Authority will enter into an indefinite quantity contract with the selected consultant.

View the Request for Proposals here.

CANCELLED – Blighted Property Board Meeting – November 10, 2021

The City of Pittston Blighted Property Board Meeting scheduled f0r Wednesday, November 10,2021 at 2:00PM in the City Hall Conference Room has been cancelled. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 2:00 PM in the City Hall Conference Room.

If you have any questions, please call (570)654-4601.

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittston – Accepting Applications

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittston is now accepting applications for housing.

Applications must be made in person at the Infantino Towers Building located at 500 Kennedy Blvd, Pittston PA between the hours of 9:00am-4:00pm. You must be over the age of 18 to apply and must bring the following items:

-Driver’s License/Identification Card

-Birth Certificate

-Social Security Card

-Proof of Income (social Security Award Statement(s), Pension, Unemployment Compensation Payments, Pay Stubs)

-3 Months’ worth of bank statements

 

Questions? Please call 570-655-3707.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CDBG-CV DISCRETIONARY FUNDS AND MODIFICATION FOR THE CDBG-CV 1 FUNDS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

CDBG-CV DISCRETIONARY FUNDS AND

MODIFICATION FOR THE CDBG-CV 1 FUNDS

CITY OF PITTSTON

 

Notice is hereby given that the City of Pittston will hold a public hearing on November 8, 2021, at 4 P.M. The Hearing will be held virtually. To join the Zoom Meeting please go to the following link:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83577961890

 

Meeting ID: 835 7796 1890

Or Call In at

(301) 715-8592

Meeting ID: 835 7796 1890

 

 

If you require special accommodations, please notify Joseph Chacke, Director of the Pittston Redevelopment Authority, at least 72 hours in advance at 570-654-4601 or jchacke@pittstonrda.com  or  TDD users 7-1-1 PA Telecommunications Relay Center.

 

The purpose of the hearing is to discuss the City’s proposed application for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG-CV) Cares Act Discretionary funds program. The City of Pittston intends to apply for $1,000,000.00 for housing rehabilitation funds to assist income qualifying, elderly and disabled households to age in place, preventing congregate living and those individuals and families with health-related issues that make them susceptible to the COVID-19 such as asthma, lead and other environmental conditions. The program will offer consultations related to COVID mitigation strategies at home through Preferred Care at Home of Pittston. This will be a regional program to include the City of Pittston and Boroughs: Avoca, Exeter, Hughestown, Taylor, Laflin, West Pittston, Wyoming, Dupont, Duryea, and Townships: Pittston and Jenkins.

 

In addition, the City of Pittston invites public input on a proposed modification to the CDBG-CV 1 Program. The City of Pittston will reallocate $77,700 from the Foreclosure Prevention Program and move the funds to pay for the replacement of 9 split unit systems at the Lincoln Heights Senior Center. HVAC work will include duct modifications, vent tie-in, flushing of refrigerant in lines and removal and disposal of old units to aid in COVID-19 mitigation strategies at the senior center.

 

All interested parties are invited to attend the public hearing and give oral testimony at the public hearing or present written comments concerning the CDBG-CV Discretionary funds application or the CDBG-CV 1 modification.  Comments may be submitted to the Pittston Redevelopment Authority, Attention Joseph Chacke at 35 Broad St. Pittston PA or jchacke@pittstonrda.com by November 9, 2021.

 

By order of the

City of Pittston

Michael Lombardo

Mayor