[OMS_MANAGERS] FW: [New post] Revitalize Ontario! Successfully Navigates the Grant Process

Sat Jan 21 12:00:17 PST 2017

Nice Job Ontario!!  It's so exciting for you and your community to start
seeing those changes!

Kelly

Downtown Dayton

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:32 AM, STUART Sheri * OPRD <
Sheri.Stuart at oregon.gov> wrote:

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> oregonheritage posted: "By Charlotte Fugate, President of Revitalize
> Ontario!, an Oregon Main Street network community and recipient of a 2016
> Oregon Heritage Diamonds in the Rough Grant Ontario is a small rural
> community of about 11,500 and we rely on agriculture for our main "
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> *Revitalize Ontario! Successfully Navigates the Grant Process*
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> *By Charlotte Fugate, President of Revitalize Ontario!, an Oregon Main
> Street network community and recipient of a 2016 Oregon Heritage Diamonds
> in the Rough Grant*
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> Ontario is a small rural community of about 11,500 and we rely on
> agriculture for our main industry. We border the Snake River and Idaho and
> we are on the far eastern side of the state. The town was platted in 1883
> just after the railroad came to Oregon. Two years ago we organized a grass
> root group, *Revitalize Ontario!* <https://www.facebook.com/RevitalizeOR/>,
> to develop and promote a healthy prosperous downtown within the context of
> cultural and historic preservation. To this end we started working with *Oregon’s
> Main Street Program*
> <http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/SHPO/Pages/mainstreet.aspx>.
>
> After setting our boundaries and phases, we formally joined Main Street as
> an “Exploring Downtown” member. We identified a cluster of large buildings
> in the core of our old town, two were in good shape, the third not so much.
> We selected the “not so much” building, the Lackey Building, to revive
> because it would have the biggest impact in enhancing our
>
> [image: before-competition]
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> The Lackey Building before the facade improvement.
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> historical downtown. We leveraged three different grants, including Oregon
> Heritage’s Diamonds in the Rough Grant, to take the building back to 1967
> (although the Lackey Building was built in 1906). We couldn’t afford to
> take it back any further but felt we would preserve the building for future
> generations and the bones would be visible once again.
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> The grant application was relatively easy to fill out. I would suggest
> that you review what information is required before tackling the process
> and try to gather as much of the information as possible before starting.
> Kuri Gill, the Grant and Outreach Coordinator, was always available and
> walked us through the process. When our application was completed, Sheri
> Stuart, the Oregon Main Street Coordinator, reviewed our application and
> made a few suggestions that made our efforts more cohesive. The most
> difficult part was gathering old photos to show examples of our goals.
> Fortunately, a business that occupied the building in 1967 had an extensive
> photo album which they shared with us. We waited with great anticipation
> for the grant committee to review our application, then came the
> announcement… we were selected!
>
> In the next few weeks we awarded the bids, set the construction schedule,
> and had a meeting with the major contractors and volunteers. We didn’t get
> off to a very good start since the volunteer who was going to demolition
> all the faux shingles and faux brick decided that he needed to be paid. We
> figured we could make that up with having volunteers do some of the paid
> tasks. We had to borrow $10,000 from the bank to cover one of the
> contractor’s bills, since they wanted to be paid when their work was
> complete. We had a visit near the project’s completion from Oregon
> Heritage's Restoration Specialist, Joy Sears, to see our finished project
> and she was very pleased.
>
> [image: downtown-after]
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> Downtown Ontario after the work was completed on the Lackey Building
> (right).
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> We completed our façade grant in four months (coming in under budget) and
> sent in our final report along with copies of invoices, receiving a
> reimbursement check within three weeks. I can’t praise the Oregon Heritage
> grant staff enough. They were helpful, encouraging, conscientious and
> really cared about our mission. A great group to work with! As for the
> Ontario community, we get accolades every day for the beautiful building
> and the improvements to the downtown. We have had several more downtown
> businesses take applications for city facade grants and have had one
> building owner inquire about the process to get their building on the *National
> Historical Register*
> <http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/NATREG/Pages/index.aspx>. We are on our
> way!
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> *Oregon Heritage has 5 grants currently open for applications, including a
> new grant only available to communities in the Oregon Main Street network.
> For more information visit here
> <http://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/FINASST/Pages/grants.aspx>. There are
> several free upcoming grant workshops available across the state. Visit the
> calendar <http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/pages/calendar.aspx>to find one
> near you. You can also contact Kuri Gill, Grants and Outreach Coordinator,
> at Kuri.Gill at oregon.gov <Kuri.Gill at oregon.gov> or (503) 986-0685
> <(503)%20986-0685>.*
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