Gov. Corbett Cuts Ribbon to Celebrate Wexford Flats Improvement Project

Rep. Mike Turzai, township officials from Pine and McCandless, PennDOT officials and more join governor for ceremony along Route 19.

With busy Route 19 as the backdrop, Gov. Tom Corbett today (Monday) joined with a host of officials to cut a ribbon to celebrate the expansion and improvements to the Wexford Flats section of the road in Pine and McCandless. At the ceremony in Wexford Plaza, Corbett used the opportunity to talk about transportation's part in the regrowth of southwestern Pennsylvania. "Southwestern Pennsylvania is at a critical juncture in its economic history," the governor said. "We are sitting in the middle of the largest economic boom in more than 150 years. We hope to become the location of the first ethane processing plant ever built in the northeast United States and this is all developing alongside a growing bio-medical and high technology sector …

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