Windsor City councilors will consider three Community Improvement Plan grants at their upcoming meeting.
If approved, the grants would help build new apartments in the downtown, create jobs, and help to revitalize a historic district in the city.
"These tools that we have are not tools that every municipality has and it puts us in a real good position to be able to leverage the interest that outside investors, and frankly inside investors, have," said Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens.
Heimat Windsor Banquet Centre has applied for $32,000 in the Main Streets CIP and the Ford City CIP to help with facade improvements.
The second grant is through the Brownfield Rehabilitation Grant Program and aims to bring more housing to the core. A development group is seeking $62,000 through the grant to complete rehabilitation work on a vacant site on the corner of Goyeau Street and Elliot Street. If approved and the project moves forward, developers plan to build two twenty-storey mixed-use apartment buildings creating over 540 units.
"The grants are a big incentive it can help offset costs to the owner to help get a project moving along," said David Rompf, Project Administrator with Passa Architects.
The third grant up for consideration is through the Economic Revitalization CIP. Dongshin Motech is seeking $2.7 million as part of their plan to invest over 32 million towards the construction of their manufacturing facility near Windsor International Airport. The plant will be a key supplier of aluminum casing to the NextStar Energy EV battery plant and is expected to create over 200 local jobs.
All three grant applications will be considered at Monday's Windsor City Council meeting.