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READING — The state recently announced two critical numbers in Erie and Reading’s journeys to get their special development zones off the ground.

Each has already picked 130 acres to include in a City Revitalization and Improvement Zone (known as a CRIZ), where certain types of local and state tax dollars will be returned for investment in special projects.

The next step was for the state to determine the baseline amount of applicable state taxes already collected in the zones. This is a critical baseline used to calculate how much money goes back into the CRIZ zones — u

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