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Urban Enterprise Zone outlines new grants, sets $100,000 pool for 2025
Summary
The Michigan City Urban Enterprise Zone Association presented its 2024 report and a 2025 grant plan at the April 15 Common Council meeting, detailing last year’s awards, new program categories and application procedures.
Tristan Smith, president of the Urban Enterprise Zone Association, told the Michigan City Common Council on April 15 that the UEZ awarded grants in the 2024 cycle to local businesses and residents and has set aside $100,000 for the 2025 cycle.
Smith said the 2024 awards included support to small businesses and residential home improvements; he described $7,500 as the cap for both the business grant and the home-improvement grant and said the UEZ added two program categories for 2025: a neighborhood improvement grant and a workforce development grant. "We are giving residents opportunity to get skilled up," Smith said, citing an example that workforce awards can pay up to $10,000 for vocational certification such as barber school. He directed…
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