Program information: https://www.massdevelopment.com/what-we-offer/real-estate-services/commonwealth-places/

Webinar registration and participation link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/88610049435571980

Apply here: https://www.cognitoforms.com/MassDevelopment/CPResurgentPlaces

MassDevelopment’s “Commonwealth Places” is a competitive opportunity to advance locally-driven placemaking in downtown and neighborhood commercial districts in eligible communities throughout Massachusetts. Placemaking is a collaborative process through which people in communities work together to improve public spaces and maximize their shared value. The process facilitates creative patterns of use, and leverages the local physical, cultural, and social assets that define a place and support its ongoing evolution.

The aim of the Commonwealth Places COVID-19 Response Round: Resurgent Places is to help community partners prepare public space and commercial districts to best serve their population during COVID-19 social distancing and the phased reopening of the economy. MassDevelopment anticipates releasing a subsequent round of Commonwealth Places funding, which may or may not also be dedicated to COVID-19 response, before June 30, 2021. Prior to completing this application, applicants should review the Request for Proposals, available here.

Commonwealth Places COVID-19 Response Round: Resurgent Places complements the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s (MassDOT) recently announced Shared Streets & Spaces, a grant program that will provide grants as small as $5,000 and as large as $300,000 for municipalities to quickly launch or expand improvements to sidewalks, curbs, streets, on-street parking spaces and off-street parking lots in support of public health, safe mobility and renewed commerce in their communities.