McKeesport won't lose Eat'n Park or Rite Aid when it installs a $5.7 million fly-over ramp to improve access into an industrial park.

City officials announced Friday that both the restaurant and the pharmacy would remain on Lysle Boulevard.

A letter to Mayor Jim Brewster from Eat'n Park Hospitality Group executives says the restaurant is committed to the city for another 10 years.

The restaurant is receiving Allegheny County development funds for renovations and expansion, according to Bethany Bauer, community development director in McKeesport. She said upgrades would be made on the interior and exterior of the restaurant, which employs about 40 people.

How much those improvements will cost and what it is costing the county is uncertain, she said.

Rite Aid will change its entrance and use a vacant lot it owns behind the store for parking, she said.

It is good news that both of those businesses are staying in the city, she said.

"Those businesses provide services to our residents. We have a lot of senior residents who live Downtown and can walk to Eat'n Park for a meal or to Rite Aid for their medicine," she said.

Groundbreaking for the ramp is expected soon, she said, which will cause Eat'n Park and Rite Aid to each lose an entrance.

Robinson-based Mosites Construction Co. was the low bidder for the ramp, which will bypass CSX railroad tracks and link Lysle Boulevard with the RIDC Riverplace Industrial Center of McKeesport. The project, which will cost $5.7 million, will be paid for with federal stimulus funds.

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