The CDBG Downtown Revitalization (DTR) Opportunity leverages investments that will contribute to the revitalization or redevelopment of downtown infrastructure and develop a greater capacity for growth, addressing health and safety concerns and commercial revitalization within the traditional business centers of the Nebraska communities.
Donor Name: Nebraska Department of Economic Development
State: Nebraska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $435,000
Details:
The CDBG Downtown Revitalization (DTR) Opportunity provides a sound basis for fostering local economic development through public and private sector partnerships. This recognizes the importance of the condition and viability of a downtown to increase the community’s tax base and cultivates a tangible center for community activity. These projects directly relate to business retention, expansion, and location decisions, but also address public gathering space, recognizing that downtowns reflect the economic core and persona of the communities.
Activities assist communities in their implementation of comprehensive downtown revitalization plan in order to stabilize and enhance clearly defined downtown areas, providing benefit to low- and moderate-income residents of the community or aid in the elimination of substandard or blighted structures and areas in the downtown.
DTR resources are for implementation of the project (i.e., physical improvements to the built environment); such funds become available to the applicant upon successful completion of the requirements of a downtown revitalization predevelopment/planning study. Because responsible, intelligent implementation arises from well-informed planning processes, applicant must make available their DTR study prior to, or along with the application for DTR resources.
The primary objective for the CDBG program is benefit to low- and moderate-income communities; therefore, priority is given to projects meeting the primary national objective of benefiting low- and moderate-income persons. Activities proposed in applications for CDBG funding in the DTR Opportunity must meet the national objective of benefitting low- and moderate-income persons (through the subcategories LMI Area Benefit and/or, LMI Limited Clientele) or aid in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight on an area (SBA).
National Objectives
Applicants must document that the proposed activity(ies) comply with a national objective.
- Benefit Low and Moderate Income Persons
- Area Benefit: Benefits are available to all the residents in a particular service area, where at least 51% of the residents are LMI persons.
- Limited Clientele: A Limited Clientele activity benefits a specific group of people (rather than all the residents in a particular area), at least 51% of whom are LMI persons.
- Aid in prevention or elimination of slums and blight
- On an Area Basis
- On a Spot Basis
Priority Activities
- Public Facilities and Improvements
- Acquisition of Real Property: Acquisition of real property that will be developed for a public purpose
- Clearance and Demolition: Clearance or demolition of buildings/improvements, or the movement of buildings to other sites. This activity must be used with another public facility and improvements activity
- Parks, Recreational Facilities: Development of open space areas or facilities intended primarily for recreational use
- Flood Drainage Improvements: Acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of flood drainage facilities, such as retention ponds, catch basins, streambank erosion controls, channelization of streambeds, or dams. This activity can also be used for “Green Infrastructure” improvements to manage stormwater. However, if stormwater management improvements are integral to another eligible CDBG activity like a street improvement activity, costs associated should be included in the street improvement activity rather than flood drainage improvements
- Water/Sewer Improvements: Installation or replacement of water lines, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, transmission lines, lift stations, sewage lagoons/ treatment facilities, water towers, water wells, and fire hydrants. Costs of street repairs (usually repaving) made necessary by water/sewer improvement activities are included under this activity
- Street Improvements: Installation or improvements of streets, street drains, storm drains, curbs and gutters, tunnels, bridges, and traffic lights/signs
- Sidewalks: Improvements to sidewalks
- Other Public Improvements – Removal of Architectural Barriers (03Z)
- Construction Management: Costs related to compliance with Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA)
- Economic Development – this excludes residential improvements
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- Commercial Rehabilitation: Rehabilitation of privately owned commercial property occupied by a business tenant or the commercial property owner’s business. Rehabilitation of vacant or vacated commercial property as a speculative offering with no business tenant committed not permitted. This activity is limited to exterior improvements (façade improvements) and correction of code violations. (refer to public facilities and improvements statement.)
- Administration
- General Administration: Overall administration, including (but not limited to) salaries, wages, and related costs of subrecipient staff or others engaged in grant management and implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $435,000.00
- Award Floor: $250,000.00
Eligibility Criteria
Every Nebraska county or incorporated municipality not designated as a CDBG Entitlement Community is eligible to apply for funding through DED. The CDBG Entitlement Communities of Lincoln, Omaha, Bellevue and Grand Island administer the program in their own areas.
For more information, visit NDED.
