It took two tries, but lask week the Village of Dansville was notified that it had been successful in this year’s bid for a New York Main Street (NYMS) grant totaling $399,000.
Where the last try had six downtown building owners sign up, this grant bid held 29 owners. This in large part due to the efforts of the Downtown Dansville Owners Alliance’s door-to-door campaign to get the word out, the paperwork filled out and handed over to the Village to give to Thoma Development Consultants, the firm who wrote the grant proposal.
How the money will be spent is now in the hands of a locally chosen guideline committee and Julie Marshall of the Livingston County Economic Development Office.
According to the NYMS guide lines, owners can get up to $50,000/building (75 percent of a project total, the owner must put in 25 percent) and the money can be used on projects on the interior or exterior of the building.
