Dec 21, 2021 3 min read

Terry Necciai

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it’s keystone facde grant money

Through they 

6 

lsa g rant out of the last 6 years submitted f

non-proftpeople are starting to see how it fitsd in the pouzle monongahela has become an incredible place

the funding that went through city very hard to 

lsa grants due in septmeber firt of october.

it’s facde grant money. Thhe main stareet program model started around 1980 get poublic and pctate partnershipos model it has a lot of si,mouiarities to what a chamber does. Geared to min sytreet really good chamber of commerce monongahela chamber of commerce excellenmt.

main street miodel is called the four-poitn approach 

four pojnts

to balance organizing a new group and getting everyone to cooperate prmoting downtown as palce to e

tird fixing design issues.

foir us to be in the top 34 is pretty exciting fro me 2500 municiplaitiesd cities 

a lot of for use to be on the lkost of 34

facade grant program one component of larger picture.

you have to have buildings in good shape.

business activity

the model exacgtlky he same as al

we will have a pool of money to offer to some who is abouit to do a project on the front wall of a building. facade grant money typicall has a cap this capo given us by the proram %.000 per b uilding. It’s a one on one match previously set up old LSA fund one to two matrch you have to have capital to do project helping you not to go bankrupot doing your project

ahhas to meet a set of standarsd

the money gets used to cleanup whole facdes building in Monongahela have had decent paint jobs since the deprtesssion, maybe one tiem.;

wed have two or theree buidings I can tll you how old the paint job is.

it’s now the most beautiful city mission store you can imagine.

It has the ambiance of a woolworth type buuilding.

finied in July facademoney fibnished

we dsid about seven this past spring we were on a really good momentum.

we were on the roll we needed to be on too four out of the five years.

we were on a roll had 20 other p-rojects actually did happen didn’;t want to be told what to do.

This is all part of Monongahela having asn incredible renassanced.

all heavily based on transpotaion industry community die several times.

60 buildings

nationally a movement to people to care about small towns and shop local.

i MOnongahela we are coming back as a city of the size we are. This is not what people think of when people think of the Mon valley

we’ve had 36 businesses oipen in the last 39 months.