HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Resolution approving Downtown Facade Grants for Spring of Fiscal Year 2025/26RESOLUTION NO. 26-455
RESOLUTION APPROVING DOWNTOWN FACADE GRANTS
FOR SPRING OF FISCAL YEAR 2025/26
FOR THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA
WHEREAS, the Downtown Facade Grant Program was introduced in 2000 to
facilitate private improvements to downtown retail and other commercial storefronts. City
Council has modified the program requirements multiple times within the past several
years, mostly recently last year to allow for a new type of grant for exterior building
maintenance and rear facades of historic buildings. The program has two funding rounds
with different priorities, a fall round for primarily front facade improvements and a spring
round for front facades, historic rehabilitation, maintenance, and rear facades; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council annually budgets $75,000 as matching funds for
eligible projects. The program has allowed for up to $23,000 of dollar-for-dollar matching
funds per front facade and maintenance as well as up to $2,000 for additional architectural
and engineering services. For the spring 2025/26 fiscal year, the remaining available
funding for the Downtown Facade Grant Program is $168,290 ; and,
WHEREAS, six complete applications are being considered for this second round:
five applications are for maintenance and one is for a traditional facade grant. Staff
calculated the total request of eligible grant funding to be $137,309.73. The program has
adequate funding to meet all requests as follows:
Address Business or Building
Name
Staff
Recommended
Award
Total Project
(applicant
estimates)
118 Main Street
(Traditional)
Ann's Insurance, Inc.
(tenant) $23,000 $53,365.09
118 Main Street
(Maintenance)
Ann's Insurance, Inc.
(tenant) $14,509.73 $29,019.47
413 Kellogg Avenue
(Maintenance)
10Fold Architecture +
Engineering $25,000 $60,000
236 Main Street
(Maintenance) Gilger Designs $25,000 $53,400
203, 205, & 207 Main
Street (Maintenance)
Tilden Store Building
(Dog-Eared Books) $25,000 $62,000
226-228 Main Street
(Maintenance) Moorman Clothiers $24,800 $84,868.50
TOTAL $137,309.73 $342,653.06
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Ames,
Iowa, that the aforementioned Downtown Facade Grants for Spring of Fiscal Year
2025/26 are hereby approved.
ADOPTED THIS 14th day of July, 2026.
_______________________________ _________________________________
Renee Hall, City Clerk John A. Haila, Mayor
Introduced by: Betcher
Seconded by: Corrieri
Voting aye: Beatty-Hansen, Betcher, Corrieri, Junck, Gartin, Rollins
Voting nay: None Absent: None
Resolution declared adopted and signed by the Mayor this 14th day of July, 2026.