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Commercial Revitalization - Avenue NYC

Avenue NYC District Marketing Red Hook Main Street Program
The Red Hook Storefront Improvement Program is available to qualifying businesses located between King Street and Coffey Street along Van Brunt Street. This is a program funded by the Department of Small Business Services to help merchants and property owners improve their storefronts in order to create a more consistent streetscape to benefit local visitors, residents, and workers. Merchants and Property owners can apply for up to $5,000 in matching funds per storefront, where the local business has to invest $1 for every $3 provided by the City. Southwest Brooklyn IDC, along with a designer provided to us by SBS, will work with your business to develop an approved set of improvements, which can include:
  • New see-through security gates
  • Awnings
  • Signage
  • Painting
  • Other exterior façade improvements

All proposed work must be pre-approved and go through the application process. For more information, contact Elizabeth Demetriou, Project Manager Commercial Revitalization edemetriou@sbidc.org  or (718) 965-3100 *104