Enterprise Enchancment District making strides towards targets – WSAZ

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – The Charleston Enterprise Enchancment District was created a bit of greater than a 12 months in the past to advertise, beautify and enhance amenities in Charleston.

With an almost $100,000 dedication from property house owners between Virginia, Court docket, Washington, and Summers Road and $50,000 from the town of Charleston, Lewis Payne, president of the Enterprise Enchancment District Lewis Payne stated that funding has was far more.

“We’ve turned that into over $700,000 in making use of for grants,” he stated.

Payne stated the grant cash has allowed them to convey on workers to start working towards greater plans.

A plan Payne and Susie Salisbury with the Charleston Space Alliance stated will change the best way downtown seems.

“If we are able to get a few of these ideas down in a pleasant shade image, individuals begin to see the imaginative and prescient and it’s a lot simpler to purchase into that imaginative and prescient and actually perceive what the entire objective of even doing the enterprise enchancment district is,” Salisbury stated.

Payne stated the estimated value of the plan is round $14 million, and each he and Salisbury are assured it could possibly occur inside 10 years.

“We wish new companies downtown, we wish it to be cleaner, we wish property values to go up,” he stated. “We don’t need for lease indicators on the facet of a constructing. We wish to see all people’s constructing full.”

Payne stated, within the subsequent 12 months, enhancements to the district will probably be coming within the type of new public artwork and new road lighting.

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