The City of Marfa accepts Historic Restoration and Preservation Grant applications from groups and businesses to promote tourism and the hotel and convention industry in Marfa.
Donor Name: City of Marfa
State: Texas
City: Marfa
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 10/07/2022
Grant Size: $2500 – $8000
Grant Duration: 6 months
Details:
In accordance with state law, this grant is restricted to enhancing historical restoration and preservation projects and activities or to advertising, soliciting, and promoting preserved historic sites or museums to attract tourists and hotel guests. Texas law does not limit such funding to structures that are owned by a public or nonprofit entity, or to whether the project is listed on a historic registry, but the City may choose to impose such limitations.
Priority will be given to organizations that rent the Tourism/USO Building or Marfa Activity Center for their event.
Events and activities will be further evaluated and scored based on:
- Cultural & Historic significance
- Organizational capacity for success
- Uniqueness and diversity
- Collaboration with other local organizations
- Appropriate budget
Funding Information
- The City of Marfa is accepting HOT applications for events occurring October 1, 2022 – March 31, 2023.
- Historic Preservation and Restoration grants are generally awarded in the range of $2500 – $8000.
Eligibility & Priority
Priority will be given to events and entities based on their ability to generate overnight visitors to Marfa. If an event or project will not generate any meaningful hotel night activity, it is not eligible for receipt of hotel occupancy tax funds. Events can prove this potential to generate overnight visitors by:
- historic information on the number of room nights used during previous years of the same event;
- current information on the size of a room block that has been reserved at area hotels to accommodate anticipated overnight guests attending the funded event;
- historical information on the number of guests at hotel or other lodging facilities that attended the funded event (through surveys, guest directories, or other sources; and/or
- examples of the planned marketing of the programs and activities that will likely generate overnight visitors to local lodging properties from this event.
For more information, visit City of Marfa.
