Grant

July 13 - 19, 2018

  • $555,000 in two Public Works projects as follows:
    • $400,000 to the Central Louisiana Economic Development Alliance, Alexandria, Louisiana, to fund the purchase and renovation of a building for the Central Louisiana Economic Development Alliance to develop the Center for Innovation and Prosperity in downtown Alexandria, Louisiana. The center will offer day-to-day job and entrepreneur skills development, advance growth of small business and innovation in globally competitive environments, and benefit from public and private partnerships. The investment will help to diversify the regional economy by driving the skills and capacities of workers and entrepreneurs alike in higher technology enterprises. The grantee estimates that this investment will help create 250 jobs and leverage $500,000 in private investment.
    • $155,000 to the Enterprise Center Community Development Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to assist the Enterprise Center Community Development Corporation in expanding its Center for Culinary Enterprises (CCE). The CCE Food and Baking Consortium is a public-private partnership with anchor institutions to increase local food sourcing and procurement. It will facilitate access to private capital investments for CCE clients and provide capacity building and technical assistance for business development and job creation. The improvements will help promote market access for goods manufactured by minority and/or disadvantaged food businesses in the designated geographic area. The grantee estimates that this investment will help create 300 jobs.
  • $430,000 in four Partnership Planning projects to support the development and implementation of the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) process. 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.
  • $575,804 in five Technical Assistance University Center projects to support the second year of a five-year University Center (UC) program, which is a competitively-based partnership between EDA and academic institutions that makes the varied and vast resources of universities available to the economic development practitioner community.