A former union hall targeted as the site of an industrial museum will be transformed, at least temporarily, into space for online instruction by the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, which owns the building.
The old United Steelworkers of America Local 1212 hall on Midland Avenue had been offered to the nonprofit Beaver County Industrial Museum as a site for its planned exhibit dedicated to the county’s historical steel and glass industries.
However, PA Cyber’s Chief Executive Officer Nick Trombetta said the state Department of Education recently notified the school that it qualified for about $2 million in stimulus funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The money, he said, has to be spent on renovating existing buildings for instructional purposes.
Trombetta said the decision to use the union hall as instruction space was based on two factors: PA Cyber’s need for additional office space and the museum’s need for building renovations. He said the idea is to use the money for both purposes.
PA Cyber, which is now using the hall as warehouse space, will spend about $1 million on renovations, following a plan outlined by the museum’s architectural firm, Hayes Large, which has offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
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PA Cyber’s fix-up of union hall sounds good to museum group, too by Bob Bauder
From Beaver County Times
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