Main Street Gettysburg Receives Keystone Community Grant

Main Street Gettysburg
Main Street Gettysburg

MAIN STREET GETTYSBURG
RECEIVES KEYSTONE COMMUNITY GRANT

(Gettysburg, Pa., December 28, 2022) – Main Street Gettysburg is pleased to announce their award of a Keystone Community Grant in the amount of $50,000. Main Street Gettysburg applied to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for the grant in order to support a local Façade Improvement Program. This is state funding from the Keystone Communities Program. The Façade Grant Program is a financial incentive program to help rehabilitate commercial buildings in the historic district of Gettysburg. This is the fourth round of the Façade Grant Program administered by Main Street Gettysburg. The first three façade programs provided grants for 26 different projects, distributed $80,000, that incented $276,111.20 total in investments to our historic district.

“Main Street Gettysburg is excited to bring back this generous program to support local businesses in our historic district, “ said Main Street President Jill Sellers. “Main Street Gettysburg received an overwhelming response from local businesses regarding the program. Local interest and support were the driving forces behind the award.” Some of the basic guidelines include: • Buildings must be located within the historic district of Gettysburg Borough. • Applications must include project descriptions and estimates. • Only projects on the application are eligible. • Projects must be approved by the Historic Architecture Review Board (HARB)* • Projects require a 1:1 match, up to $5,000 ($10,000 total project).

The award of the Keystone Communities Grant will provide assistance for the restoration and reinvestment in our historic downtown. Next step is the formal application process, which will begin in January.


ABOUT MAIN STREET GETTYSBURG

Main Street Gettysburg (MSG) was founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization to unite and lead the Gettysburg community in successful economic- and community-development projects to enhance the quality of life for Gettysburg and Adams County residents. The Main Street Gettysburg mission is to work with community partners for the historic preservation, economic revitalization, and overall enhancement of Gettysburg, and the organization oversees ambitious initiatives and economic-development strategies. Major accomplishments include a 10-year interpretive plan for historic preservation in the Borough of Gettysburg, which resulted in more than $55 million of downtown projects; the $7.5 million Steinwehr Avenue Revitalization Project, resulting in 29 new businesses in a five-year period that offered new jobs, additional ADA improvements and a safer and more beautiful neighborhood with updated infrastructure; the Main Street CARES Program that helped businesses reopen during the pandemic by providing free toolkits with handmade masks; latex gloves; homemade sanitizer; informational posters and social-distancing floor stickers to over 140 businesses; the Baltimore Street Project and the Gettysburg Welcome Center, which are both currently under consideration for federal funding.


 

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