Q&A
Grants and initiatives for activating public spaces
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Council Member Feliz asks about different grants and initiatives useful for activating public spaces. Haris Khan outlines several grant programs available to community-based development organizations (CBDOs) for public space activation and economic development.
- Available grants include Avenue NYC, Neighborhood 360, and merchant organizing grants
- The administration announced the first-ever BID development grants
- SBS allocated $650,000 for a new public realm grant, benefiting 10 organizations across all boroughs
- These grants are integrated into SBS's vision for economic development and public space activation
Oswald Feliz
0:23:25
So what are different grants that or initiatives that would be useful to activating public spaces?
Haris Khan
0:23:31
So CBDOs, community based development organizations, we encourage them to apply to our avenue NYC grant, our neighborhood 360 grant.
0:23:38
They can also apply to merchant organizing.
0:23:41
And then for some organizations and neighborhoods, where they feel they need to embark on a journey of bid formation and bid creation.
0:23:48
We do the administration announced the 1st ever bid development grants.
0:23:52
The bid development grant might not be perfectly suited for some of this work, but almost every other grant is.
0:23:58
And even in the bid Belmond Grant, part of the deliverables are demos executing on a demonstration project.
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And that could be a large scale public space activation, a street fair of sorts, a lighting fixture of sorts.
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And so We don't see this work siloed.
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This is all integrated into the vision of our division and the grants that we issue, but we're doubling down on it with this public realm grant that we've allocated $650,000, and we're spreading that money to every single barrel and with 10 organizations benefiting from this.
