Edmonton offers inner-city homeowners renovation grants

Edmonton homeowners living in the inner-city could be eligible for up to $20,000 to renovate their home as part of an effort to revitalize the city’s core neighbourhoods.

“This neighbourhood has so much potential and opportunity for growth,” says Central McDougall resident Manjit Singh. “It’s becoming a really sweet community so it’d be nice to have the houses come up as well.”

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Business owners starting to take grant advantage

Business owners in the city’s downtown accessed grants worth $286,000 in 2012 – marking a more than tenfold improvement in the second year of a four-year program to spur redevelopment in the city centre.

“Going forward, we feel that we’re getting some traction in developing downtown,” city business development officer Keith Crush told Wednesday’s Development and Infrastructure committee meeting.

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