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Gardiner’s waterfront project got a major financial boost recently thanks to some new State grant funding. Maine’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) announced it will provide Gardiner a $150,000 Community Enterprise (CE) grant for the City’s waterfront project. The City applied for CE grant funding to go towards completing the boardwalk and making other site improvements, such as installing new lighting, parking and greenspace areas.
The DECD grant announcement comes a few months after the City received news it will be receiving a $147,000 federal earmark in 2008. Senator Collins and Snowe presented the city’s request in the United States Senate and gained final approval for the federal funds in December of 2007. The total of grant funding, for the next phase of the waterfront project, now stands at just under $300,000.
Gardiner last made significant improvements to the waterfront park in 2006. With grant funding totaling over $850,000, and support from many funding state and federal agencies (including DECD, MaineDOT, Department of Conservation, Land for Maine’s Future, and others), the City built phase I of the project. Phase I included installation of over 525 linear feet of new timber boardwalk and railing over new shoreline-stabilizing timber crib sections. The DECD and State of Maine continue to be a major supporter of Gardiner’s downtown revitalization and waterfront redevelopment efforts, with this recent CE grant announcement.
For more information about the grant announcement and waterfront project, please click on the full press release here or contact Jason Simcock at 582-6888, or by email to econdev@gardinermaine.com.
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