NW Georgia Housing Authority seeks $1.3M planning grant to target East Rome improvements | Local News
The Northwest Georgia Housing Authority plans to submit another request for a Choice Neighborhood planning grant of up to $1.3 million dollars. If the planning grant is awarded, it would put the housing authority in line for a potential implementation grant of upwards of $30 million. The authority submitted an application in 2016 but there was a problem with the application and Camiros, the Chicago- based consulting firm that wrote last year’s grant, is rewriting the 2017 application at no additional cost to the authority. Camiros was paid $8,000 for the 2016 application. NWGHA Executive Director Sandra Hudson said the agency is seeking to redevelop the Maple Street- East 12th Street community in East Rome with the funds. As part of the planning grant , the authority had to choose a small project to undertake as an example of the type of work that could be accomplished to completely turn around a community, and has chosen to do a streetscape project along East 12th. Last year,...