Grant

November 2 - 8, 2018

$1,899,367 to the Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority, Macon/Bibb County, Georgia, to fund infrastructure improvements supporting a tissue product manufacturing company in Macon-Bibb’s Sofkee Industrial Park. The project will include road improvements and new rail lines leading into the park. Once completed, this investment will expand the transportation network that serves vital industries, which will strengthen the regional economy, support private capital investment and create jobs. The grantee estimates that this investment will help create 194 jobs and leverage $368,000,000 in private investment.
$50,000 to the Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission, Oil City/Venango County, Pennsylvania, to fund the Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Broadband Assets Inventory Assessment to develop a single repository of vertical assets, such as communication towers, water tanks, and other structures useful for the support of deploying affordable, reliable wireless/wired broadband in Oil City. Once completed, the increased access to broadband will help local businesses that have or will be filing for bankruptcy attract new industry and training to the area, which will create new, higher paying job opportunities for the region’s workforce.