{"id":47055,"date":"2023-12-21T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=47055"},"modified":"2023-12-21T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:02:34","slug":"legislators-announce-growth-award-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2023\/12\/21\/legislators-announce-growth-award-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislators announce Growth Award funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\">Staff reports<\/div>\n<p>BOSTON &mdash; State Sen. Peter J. Durant, R&ndash;Spencer, has announced fiscal 2024 Community One Stop for Growth Award Funding. The award funding was announced by MassDevelopment on Dec. 13 at the Collaborative Workspaces awards in Fitchburg.<\/p>\n<p>The fiscal 2024 round of the Community One Stop for Growth resulted in nearly $164 million in funding for 338 local economic development projects in 161 communities.<\/p>\n<p>Holden and Sterling received the following awards:<\/p>\n<p>Holden: Town of Holden &#8211; Community Planning Grant Program &#8211; $60,100.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling: KAVA Properties LLC &#8211; Underutilized Properties Program &#8211; $375,000<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am happy to see our communities and local organizations receive funding through the One Stop Grant Awards. Economic and community development are essential to making sure that our communities continue to thrive,&rdquo; Durant said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the administration&rsquo;s website, The Community One Stop for Growth is a single application portal and collaborative review process of community development grant programs that make targeted investments based on a development continuum. This process streamlines the experience for the applicant and better coordinates economic development programs and staff on engagement and grant-making.<\/p>\n<p>The One Stop benefits communities in the following ways, as they pursue state funding to realize their housing and economic development goals:<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Ability to be considered by more than one grant program simultaneously;<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Guidance and State partnerships;<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Direct referrals to additional programs;<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Removal of redundant legacy program processes and questions;<\/p>\n<p>&bull; A broader view of community priorities; and<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Collaborative review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff reports BOSTON &mdash; State Sen. Peter J. Durant, R&ndash;Spencer, has announced fiscal 2024 Community One Stop for Growth Award Funding. The award funding was announced by MassDevelopment on Dec. 13 at the Collaborative Workspaces awards in Fitchburg. The fiscal 2024 round of the Community One Stop for Growth resulted in nearly $164 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}