QUESTION
How can commercial corridors with high vacancies obtain grants?
0:59:07
·
50 sec
Deputy Commissioner Calvin T. Brown discusses the role of commercial district needs assessment in identifying interventions for commercial corridors with high vacancy rates and facilitating grant access.
- Commercial district needs assessment is required to formulate interventions for commercial corridors facing challenges.
- A community partner is necessary to facilitate the grant process.
- The involvement of a community partner helps in connecting neighborhoods facing challenges to available grants.
Oswald Feliz
0:59:07
Are there any grants available to help reactivate this advantage of commercial corridors, let's say corridor that have high vacancy rate.
0:59:16
Those corridors, I'm sure they it's gonna be very difficult for them to form a bid or to even get resources given that they're not organized.
Calvin T. Brown
0:59:24
Yeah.
0:59:24
So this is where the commercial district needs assessment comes into play because I think if there's a a commercial court or that experience in those sorts of challenges.
0:59:34
Having that sort of assessment can then help formulate what the intervention should be.
0:59:41
Now it does require a community partner.
0:59:43
So that's where, you know, you're welcome to like, if there's any neighborhoods that, you know, you can identify that have those colleges, we have to connect it to a community partner who can help facilitate the the grant.
Oswald Feliz
0:59:56
Okay.