2023 Commercial Facade Improvement Program

The Commercial Façade Improvement Grant Program provides funding to commercial property owners and tenants of commercial property, to redesign, renovate or restore facades on commercial buildings that are commercial use at street level. 

Eligibility
Eligibility improvements include, but are not limited to:

• masonry

• brick cleaning and restoration

• new doors

• new windows

• outdoor decorative or security lighting

• outdoor entrance tiling

• installation of canopies or awnings

• repair of cornice, parapets and other architectural features

• outdoor wall-mounted signs

• exterior painting as part of the eligible improvements.

• Wheelchair accessibility ramping, accessible railings and accessible door openers that meet Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) standards are also eligible.

A minimum of three eligible improvements are required for an application.

Funding

• Half of the cost of eligible improvements is covered up to a maximum $12,500 grant for $25,000 worth of improvements. The minimum grant is $2,500 for $5,000 worth of improvements.

• Additional funding of half of the cost of accessibility AODA upgrade improvements up to a maximum $2,500 grant for $5,000 worth of improvements.

• For multiunit commercial properties, $2,500 per additional unit up to five units totalling a maximum bonus grant of $12,500.

Interested? Put together your ideas, drawings, sketches, and quotes so you can submit your application on March 1. These funds are normally exhausted very early. 

Application Opens: March 1, 2023

Deadline to Apply: May 4, 2023