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TriCities.com
http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/consumer/article/gov_kaines_office_announces_community_development_block_grants/11123/
By Mac McLean
Reporter / Bristol
Herald Courier
Published: June 28, 2008
Estimated to have a $28 million annual economic impact in the region,
Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan Gateway, which is to be built in Abingdon, Va.,
will receive a $1.2 million community development block grant.
The project – which is also set to receive another $14.6 million from various
state and local sources – is one of six projects in Southwest
Virginia to receive $5.3 million in block grants, announced in a
Friday news release from the office of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine.
“Each year, the community development block grant awards address the basic
needs of every Virginian: housing, clean and safe water, health care and jobs,”
Kaine said in the release.
The six projects will also receive money from other sources such as local
governments and the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community
Revitalization Commission, bringing the total for the projects to $27.2
million, according to the release.
Following is a list showing each of the projects and its funding sources.
* $15.8 million for the Heartwood artisan center in Washington County,
Va., which includes $6.3 million from the Tobacco Commission, $6.3 million from
the state government, $3 million in rural development money, $1 million from
the Appalachian Regional Commission, and $1 million in local money.
* $4.1 million for Smyth County’s Groseclose sewer project, which
includes $1 million from the Southern Rivers Watershed Enhancement Program,
$1.7 million in rural development money and a $240,000 grant from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
* $2.7 million for a sewer rehabilitation and expansion project in
Norton, which includes $1 million from the Southern Rivers Watershed
Enhancement Program, $514,800 in rural development money and $195,200 in local
money.
* $2.6 million for Scott
County’s Bishoptown Area
water project, which includes $1.6 million in state funds.
* $1.5 million for Gate
City’s downtown
rehabilitation project, which includes a $413,150 private donation and $164,810
in local funding.
* $524,000 for a housing rehabilitation project in downtown Clinchco,
which includes $24,000 in state money.
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