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Many months of hard work, planning, and collaboration among various partners have been rewarded this spring as the DeWine Administration announced the results of the long-anticipated Appalachian Community Grant (ACG) Program.

Cleveland City Council recently approved Mayor Justin Bibb’s “plan to create a special downtown taxing district to pay for an overhaul of the city center and the Lake Erie and Cuyahoga River waterfronts,” Cleveland.com reports. The “Shore-to-Core-to-Shore” tax increment financing (TIF) district is expected to generate an estimated ...

Dublin-based Crawford Hoying and Dayton-based Woodard Development are seeking funding to complete “[o]ne of the largest development projects in downtown Dayton,” the $88 million transformation of the former Mendelson liquidation outlet “into a mixed-use economic driver in the city” called The Delco, the Dayton Business Journal

Site preparation will soon begin for a new multimillion-dollar mixed-use development on Pike Street in Marietta, bringing temporary construction jobs and 50–70 permanent jobs, the Marietta Times reports.

A federal grant “of up to $500 million” was awarded to the Middletown Works steel plant “to replace its coal-burning blast furnace with a hybrid unit that burns hydrogen and natural gas” in a project that “is expected to create 1,200 construction jobs and dramatically reduce carbon emissions,” WCPO.com reports.