Community Development
2007 Community Development Block Grant Nears Completion
The City was the successful recipient of a $567,000 comprehensive Community Development Block Grant for a neighborhood in the City known as the South End Neighborhood. This area of the City has been the focus of significant financial investment over the last five years. For example, South Main Street received a $4.5M facelift with State Thruway, City, and County funding. Noss Park was designated a Build Now NY site. Cortland Plastics received $350,000 in Community Development Block Grant economic development funds, new trees were planted as a result of NYS DEC funding, a new $4M Clocktower Building was constructed, and Housing Visions invested $8.1M in renovating 30 units of income property.
The 2007 CDBG was used to rehabilitate five owner-occupied housing units and 22 income property units in the target area; provide proactive code enforcement; upgrade water and sewer on Pierce and Winter Streets, and South Avenue; repave those streets; install new sidewalks; provide microenterprise assistance to small neighborhood businesses; and provide landscaping and sidewalk for the vacant lot on the Coffee Depot property.