Downtown Lansing Inc. offers grants and assistance exclusive to downtown businesses. The Business & Property Improvement Grant program is available to downtown properties and businesses, with a priority on rehabbing and revitalizing historic buildings within the downtown district. Grants are only eligible to non-tax-exempt businesses and organizations at this time.
Goals: The purpose of this program is to reduce vacancies, rehab older vacant commercial buildings, and support business while enhancing the physical appearance of our downtown district and improve the overall economic viability of Michigan’s Downtown.
Preference may be given to projects that:
• Advance Downtown Lansing’s Comprehensive Market Analysis (CMA) priorities,
• Include a property that has been vacant for 5 or more years.
• Involve the rehabilitation of historic or architecturally significant buildings.
• Activate street-level spaces
• Fill vacant storefronts
• Increase downtown amenities
Download the full description and application.
