Many businesses, like Summerwood on Water Street, have taken advantage of the town's Storefront Improvement Program over the years. Photo by Richard Dionne.
The Town of Warren is offering cash grants to downtown business owners who plan to spend money beautifying their properties.
The town’s years-old Storefront Improvement Program is funded this year with $20,000 in grants from the federal Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) program. Any business owner or business property owner from north of Franklin and Campbell streets east to Metacom Avenue and south of Kickemuit Road can apply for partial, 50/50 matched reimbursement.
Work covered under the program includes the installation of new signs, improvement of existing ones, the replacement or repair of awnings, facade restorations, exterior painting, window replacement and more.
Warren Town Planner Caroline Wells is administering the program, and reimbursement is generally paid anywhere from four to 14 weeks after application, providing the work proposed is covered. For more information on the program, see the Warren Times-Gazette website, www.warrenri.com; a PDF explaining the program in its totality can be downloaded there. In addition, you can call Ms. Wells at 245-2469.
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