After years of controversy, Port Authority and Edgewood officials have resolved some of their differences about the fate of the historic Edgewood Train Station.

The authority announced this week that it has leased the local landmark to the borough for a nominal $1 a year, officially relinquishing its oversight. The building is not in "move-in" condition despite about $500,000 worth of improvements made over the past several years.

"The rehabilitation isn't completed yet, including the restrooms," Edgewood Manager Curt Ferguson said.

As a result, the authority and borough are cooperating to identify ways and funds to finish the project, including trying to find a tenant who may be offered a lower rent in exchange for doing the remaining work.

"We intend to move forward and try to market the building to an appropriate user," Mr. Ferguson said. "We're looking to put out a [request for proposals] very soon" for prospective tenants.

The station sits along the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway Extension, which opened in June 2003 to the Swissvale-Rankin line and added 2.3 miles to the original 6.8-mile, buses-only road between Downtown and Wilkinsburg.

The authority, borough and other local officials got into a brouhaha about the station's future and responsibility for repairs and remodeling, starting in the mid-1990s, as part of a larger issue involving construction of a linear park that's also supposed to be built along the busway.

The 1,500-square-foot train station at the bottom of Maple Avenue, once a stop for passenger trains on the old Penn Central Railroad mainline, housed a real estate office and an antiques shop until mid-2005.

The authority spent $44,000 to replace the roof, then awarded contracts totaling $453,000 to cover general construction and electrical work that included new water and sewer lines, doors, exterior lighting and rehabilitation of existing woodwork until the money ran out.

Because the Edgewood Train Station has no function in connection with East Busway operations, new authority board members have been reluctant to pay for improvements.

They acquiesced after being assured that saving the train station was part of commitments made to the Federal Transit Administration, which paid 80 percent of the $62 million cost of the busway extension.

The linear park also was part of the deal, but it ends at the Wilkinsburg line on one side of the borough and at the Swissvale line on the other side, leaving a gap through Edgewood.

"A consultant was hired in January in conjunction with the Port Authority to look at the linear park and determine what should be done," Mr. Ferguson said.

Restoring the train station and building the linear park were provisions made to secure federal environmental approval and to gain the consent of Edgewood officials, who for years opposed building the busway.

In a news release, the authority acknowledged the help of the Edgewood council, borough Solicitor Timothy Barry and state Sen. Jay Costa, D-Forest Hills, in finally securing a long-term agreement.