Editing Norristown, Pennsylvania (section)

==Revitalization==
[[File:One Montgomery Plaza Office Building.JPG|thumb|One Montgomery Plaza Office Building]] 
Norristown has seen several new office buildings constructed or rehabbed over the last several decades.  One Montgomery Plaza, the municipality's iconic downtown 10-story office building, was built in the early 1970s, and is now owned by Montgomery County. Two newer mid-rise downtown office buildings, the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit Building and the Department of Environmental Protection Building, were built in the 1990s and early 2000s.  In 2009, the historic former [[Bell Telephone]] building was completely renovated for offices, and that same year the U.S. Roofing Corporation rehabbed the former Conte Luna pasta factory on East Main Street to house their operations.  The former [[Sears]] building at the Studio Centre shopping center in the North End was renovated as a modern office center.

Since the early 2000s, Regatta Apartments, the Rittenhouse condominium building, the Luxor, and dozens of new townhouses have contributed to a residential boom in the East End.

Two new downtown parking garages were built in the late 2000s, one at Main and Cherry Streets for visitors and another at [[SEPTA]]’s [[Norristown Transportation Center]] on Lafayette Street.  Several large downtown and neighborhood streetscape projects were completed by the municipal government to install new street lighting, trees, curbing, and sidewalks along Main Street, DeKalb Street, and Powell Street.

The Lafayette Street Extension Project, a $60 million effort by Montgomery County, [[Pennsylvania Department of Transportation|PennDOT]], and the [[Federal Highway Administration]] (FHWA), is now open to traffic.  It has improved highway access and mobility into downtown Norristown by widening Lafayette Street and extending it eastward toward Ridge Pike and [[Conshohocken]], with eventual connections to the [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]] ([[Interstate 276|I-276]]) and the [[U.S. Route 202 in Pennsylvania|US 202]] Dannehower Bridge.<ref>Montgomery County Planning Commission, Lafayette Street Extension Project website, http://www.lafayettestreetproject.com.</ref>