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CRA updates: commission boosts commercial facade grant, launches downtown soft-wash and approves mural plan with edits
Summary
The Community Redevelopment Agency approved updates to the commercial façade grant (raising the city match to 75% and the maximum grant to $10,000), authorized a $37,500 program budget, launched a downtown soft-wash pilot, and approved a mural for the annex building with edits requested by commissioners.
The Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) of the City of Newberry on June 9 approved changes to the commercial façade grant program to make it a stronger incentive for downtown building improvements and received several CRA program updates.
CRA staff proposed changing the grant match from a 50/50 reimbursement to a 75/25 model (city covers 75% of eligible work, applicant 25%), increasing the maximum grant from $5,000 to $10,000 (meaning a total project could be up to about $13,000 with the…
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