Redevelopment Grant and Demolition Loan Programs

Funder: Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED)

The Redevelopment Grant and Demolition Loan Programs, offered by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), provide crucial funding for revitalizing blighted properties. The grant covers up to 50% of redevelopment costs with a local match and supports public land acquisition, demolition, and infrastructure improvements. The Demolition Loan Program aids local governments in removing dangerous structures without immediate redevelopment plans, ensuring safer communities and fostering future development opportunities.

The Brownfields and Redevelopment Unit is soliciting applications for grant funding for Redevelopment projects through the Redevelopment Grant and Demolition Loan Programs.
Redevelopment Grant Program:
The Redevelopment Grant Program helps communities with the costs of redeveloping blighted industrial, residential, or commercial sites and putting land back into productive use.
Grants pay up to half of the redevelopment costs for a qualifying site, with a 50% local match. Eligible applicants are cities, counties, port authorities, housing and redevelopment authorities, and economic development authorities.
Grants can assist with the cost of public land acquisition (if public ownership is necessary to facilitate redevelopment), building and site demolition, infrastructure improvements, soil stabilization, ponding or other environmental infrastructure, and costs necessary for the adaptive reuse of buildings, such as asbestos abatement and lead paint mitigation. Grants do no provide assistance for building construction, renovation, or rehabilitation.
At least half of the grant funds available will be awarded to sites located outside of the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area, given that a sufficient number of eligible applications are received from outstate applicants.
Demolition Loan Program: