Grant

August 19 - 23, 2013

  • $1.65 million in public works assistance to Talbot County and the Town of Easton, Maryland, to support the construction of a new wastewater system and pump station to serve the proposed Shore Health System's Regional Medical Center Campus in Easton. The region has outgrown the existing Easton Memorial Hospital, and relocating the hospital would potentially move jobs out of an area of the state with one of the highest unemployment rates and hurt the area’s access to health care. EDA’s investment will not only support the new medical center, but also support medical private practices and other additional businesses looking to locate in the vicinity. This investment is part of a $3.3 million project that the grantees estimate will create 250 jobs, save 2,100 jobs, and leverage $240 million in private investment.
  • $1,644,040 in trade adjustment assistance to the Regents of the University of Colorado at Boulder, to fund the activities of the Rocky Mountain Trade Adjustment Assistance Center at the Regents of the University of Colorado in Boulder, which serves import-impacted firms located in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $2,076,040 project.
  • $1,621,025 in trade adjustment assistance to the Mid-Atlantic Employers’ Association, to fund the activities of the Mid-Atlantic Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, which serves import-impacted firms located in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $2,522,643 project.
  • $1,549,089 in trade adjustment assistance to the New England Trade Adjustment Assistance Center, Inc., to fund the activities of the New England Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in North Billerica, Massachusetts, which serves import-impacted firms located in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $2,411,089 project.
  • $1,538,277 in trade adjustment assistance to Applied Strategies International, Ltd., to fund the activities of the Midwest Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Chicago, Illinois, which serves import-impacted firms located in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $2,194,177 project.
  • $1,374,763 in trade adjustment assistance to the University of Texas at San Antonio to fund the activities of the Southwest Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in San Antonio, TX, which serves import-impacted firms located in: Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $1,512,771 project.
  • $1,356,692 in trade adjustment assistance to the Trade Task Group to fund the activities of the Northwest Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Seattle, Washington, which serves import-impacted firms located in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $1,542,132 project.
  • $1,310,555 in trade adjustment assistance to the Regents of the University of Michigan to fund the activities of the Great Lakes Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which serves import-impacted firms located in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $1,705,055 project.
  • $1,263,223 in trade adjustment assistance to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to fund the activities of the Southeastern Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Atlanta, Georgia, which serves import-impacted firms located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $1,574,117 project.
  • $1,195,204 in trade adjustment assistance to the University of Southern California to fund the activities of the Western Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Los Angeles, which serves import-impacted firms located in Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $1,553,123 project.
  • $1,152,303 in trade adjustment assistance to the Curators of the University of Missouri-Columbia to fund the activities of the Mid-America Trade Adjustment Assistance Center in Columbia, Missouri, which serves import-impacted firms located in Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $1,640,824 project.
  • $1,116,827 in trade adjustment assistance to the Research Foundation of SUNY Binghamton to fund the activities of the New York State Trade Adjustment Assistance Center at the Research Foundation State University of New York in Binghamton, which serves import-impacted firms located in New York, to strengthen their competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. This investment is part of a $1,336,409 project.
  • $932,000 in public works assistance to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke Foundation Incorporated and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke to fund the renovation of existing buildings in downtown Pembroke to create the University of North Carolina at Pembroke Entrepreneurship Incubator. This facility will provide local entrepreneurs and high-growth businesses with quality space and business services. By supporting economic diversification, the incubator will also help spur the creation of new high-skill, living-wage jobs in a region that has experienced job losses in the textile and tobacco manufacturing sectors. This investment is part of a $1,166,083 project that the grantees estimate will create 115 jobs and leverage $1.15 million in private investment.
  • $909,500 in partnership planning assistance to the Kentucky Department of Local Government, Frankfort, Kentucky, to support the development and implementation of comprehensive economic development strategies (CEDS) by Area Development Districts in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and enhancement of coordinated economic development efforts. The CEDS process is designed to bring together the public and private sectors in the creation of an economic development roadmap to diversify and strengthen the regional economy. This investment is part of a $1,136,875 project.
  • $364,000 in public works assistance to the City of Fellsmere, Florida, to fund the construction of roadway infrastructure to support growth of the region’s aquaculture cluster. The cluster includes a commercial-scale, state-of-the-art aquaculture program in Fellsmere and an adjoining facility that will house a research and development consortium that includes the Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Institute, the Florida Institute of Technology, and Texas Tech University. This investment is part of a $728,000 project that the grantee estimates will create 42 jobs and leverage $10.4 million in private investment.
  • $300,000 in economic adjustment assistance to the TruFund Financial Services, Inc. (formerly Seedco Financial Services, Inc.), New York City, New York, to provide technical services and support for 8 to 10 emerging New York City small businesses. In an incubator setting, the program will target new companies in the City’s two fastest growing sectors -- technology and healthcare-- and provide these businesses with access to professional business expertise, networking, and management training opportunities. The program will provide the competitively selected businesses with on-site services tailored to address each firms’ operational needs, thereby maximizing their growth potential. This investment is part of a $600,000 project.