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Fairfax City spotlights small businesses, Flex Card and workforce programs to boost downtown economy
Summary
Fairfax City economic-development presentations and business testimonials highlighted facade and interior grants, the new Fairfax City Flex Card e-gift program, and Upskill Fairfax City tuition assistance as tools the city says will help small businesses and support workforce development.
Fairfax City economic development officials and a string of local business owners used a city-hosted presentation to promote programs aimed at helping small businesses recover and grow.
City representatives described post-pandemic challenges and new grant efforts — including façade and interior improvement grants, LIFT and FIG grants, and a local gift-card program — that they say are intended to lure businesses to Old Town Fairfax and support existing merchants. “They know that small businesses, really the backbone of the local economy,” an unidentified…
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