There are a few downtown businesses that have started to spruce up their storefronts in Jefferson and there’s still time for more to happen with a couple of small grant opportunities. 

Jefferson Matters: A Main Street and Chamber Community Design Team Chair Karen Lawton says they offer a facade and signage mini-grants. Both grants are up to $500 to make either exterior repairs or improvements to a storefront in the downtown historic district or provide funding for a new sign for a business. 

“We really encourage businesses to keep the outside of their business attractive and we’d like to offer, in a small way, how we can help do that. It’s really important to attract people into your business that you keep the facade looking nice. We have so many out-of-towners coming and they have to look at your storefront or your business front and say, ‘We want to go in there’ and that means you have to have a nice facade.”

Click the links below for more information or to access the grant application for each mini-grant.

Facade mini-grant: https://jeffersonmatters.org/building-improvement-mini-grant-application/

Signage mini-grant: https://jeffersonmatters.org/storefront-signage-mini-grant/