2024 Commercial Facade Improvement Program
NOTE: THESE FUNDS ARE OFTEN OVER-SUBSCRIBED EARLY, SO PREPARE YOUR DOCUMENTATION AND APPLY AS SOON AS IT OPENS. Applications Open March 4, 2024.
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 4. These funds are normally exhausted very early.
Application Opens: March 4, 2024
Deadline to Apply: TBD
