This NOFA announces the availability of $1,600,000 of economic development sales tax funding from the City of St. Louis acting by and through the Community Development Administration (CDA) to facilitate the implementation of two adopted neighborhood plans.
Donor Name: City of St. Louis
State: Missouri
City: St. Louis
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/29/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
In 2017 City Voters adopted Ordinance 70435 enacting a half cent Economic Development Sales Tax. Ten percent of this revenue is dedicated to neighborhood revitalization, with a focus on placed based catalytic investments designed to support the implementation of neighborhood plans.
This NOFA seeks to provide two awards for large scale neighborhood plan implementation which will leverage additional funds.
The City anticipates making each award to a developer, a neighborhood association, a non-profit organization operating on behalf of a specific neighborhood or group of contiguous neighborhoods, or a team of these organizations. A developer must apply jointly with an aforementioned non-profit or neighborhood association. The City anticipates making awards to proposals with budgets ranging between $700,000 and $900,000, but invites respondents to apply with a budget less than or greater than this range.
Eligible Uses of funds
CDA is seeking proposals to implement a neighborhood plan that has been adopted by the City of St. Louis Planning Commission. Proposals must describe, in detail, the proposed usage of the funding. CDA anticipates that proposals will lay out a scope of work that can be completed between July of 2024 and December of 2026, but invites proposals that include activities on a longer timeline.
The proposed use of the funding must include the following:
- The proposal should explain how the funding will be used to implement a neighborhood plan that has been adopted by the City of St. Louis Planning Commission between 2018 and present. The plan can be a plan that has been adopted as a supplement to the Comprehensive Plan or a topical plan. The plan must cover a single neighborhood or multiple contiguous neighborhoods.
- The proposal must describe how the Respondent will leverage the award to raise additional funding support from other public and private sources. CDA anticipates that respondents will raise at a minimum a one-to-one match of award dollars to private or public funding, and expects respondents to submit applications with a greater match capacity.
- The proposal should lay out a detailed plan for specific improvements, programs, services, developments, or other actions to implement the neighborhood plan. Every proposed activity must be tied back to the approved neighborhood plan. The proposal should lay out this connection for each proposed action. Applicants should consider how their proposal aligns with the City’s Consolidated Plan.
- The funding cannot be used for housing development or rehabilitation. Likewise the funding may not be used for street-related improvements except for sidewalks.
For more information, visit City of St. Louis.
