The Industrial Revitalization Fund (IRF) leverages local and private resources to achieve market-driven redevelopment of vacant and deteriorated industrial and commercial properties. The program focuses on vacant non-residential structures whose poor condition creates physical and economic blight to the surrounding area in which the structure is located.
The following communities were named 2022 IRF grant recipients:
Town of Blackstone | VUMAC Adaptive Reuse: Boutique Hotel | $600,000
City of Petersburg | Hotel Petersburg | $600,000
Culpeper County | Carver Food Incubator and Commercial Kitchen | $470,000
City of Newport News | 2510 Jefferson Avenue | $250,000
From left to right:
- Town of Blackstone | former Virginia United Methodist Assembly Center (VUMAC)
- City of Petersburg | former Hotel Petersburg
- Culpeper County | former George Washington Carver Regional High School
- City of Newport News | 2510 Jefferson Avenue, two-story building
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