The state of Pennsylvania has pledged $6.6 million toward the redevelopment of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, where a gunman killed 11 people in 2018 in the nation’s deadliest attack on Jews. The state funding will help “transform this site that has been marked by horror…into one full of hope, remembrance and education,” Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, said at a news conference with Gov. Tom Wolf.

Tree of Life has already selected architect Daniel Libeskind to redesign the sprawling synagogue complex. Libeskind did the master plan for New York’s World Trade Center after the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001. The design is still taking shape, but the campus will include a memorial, worship and education spaces, and a wing for the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania’s pledge comes from the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program.

The defendant in the synagogue massacre awaits trial on more than 60 federal charges. Prosecutors are seeking a death sentence for 49-year-old Robert Bowers, who has pleaded not guilty. Authorities say Bowers opened fire during worship services inside the Tree of Life in October 2018, killing eight men and three women and wounding seven others before police tracked him down and shot him. The former truck driver expressed hatred of Jews before and during the rampage, authorities said.