This analysis of the TA Grant Program Guidelines highlights key provisions and is not comprehensive of all program requirements. View Treasury's dedicated SSBCI webpage and CDFA's SSBCI Resource Center for additional program information, updates, and insights.

Join us on June 14 for the third installment of the Federal Financing Webinar Series: Creating More Equitable Environments with the EPA. Engage with industry experts as we discuss how you can use EPA programs to create more equitable communities by addressing pollution, empowering residents in environmental decisions, and more!

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced details of a framework to transform the food system to benefit consumers, producers and rural communities by providing more options, increasing access, and creating new, more, and better markets for small and mid-size producers. The package includes new aid to support food supply chain infrastructure outside meat processing, regional food business centers, a new organic transition initiative, and urban agriculture.

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the completion of a $13 million project to install green infrastructure improvements at multiple locations near Jamaica Bay. The Governor's Office of Storm Recovery project included rain gardens, rain barrels, and a shade structure to mitigate flooding, enhance street safety, and reduce pollution across South Brooklyn and South Queens communities.

The city of Encinitas secured a $20 million loan from the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to preserve and revitalize a section of the North Coast Highway 101 Corridor. The bank's loan will cover the construction of roundabouts, wider sidewalks, buffered bike lanes, increased parking options, additional lighting and new stormwater infrastructure.

King County is competing for federal funding from a section of the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. It provides $1 billion for projects that address culverts that block salmon migration. King County said in a statement that it could "potentially cut the amount of time it would take to construct the identified priority projects in half, from 20 years to 10."

The City of Bowling Green has entered into a partnership with Wood County regarding 2022 Community Housing Impact and Preservation funds from the Ohio Department of Development. Council took action, giving three readings to and passing a resolution on this, at last week's meeting.

The federal government said that it will invest nearly $7 million to clean up and redevelop contaminated properties across the state. The EPA said the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments will get nearly $4 million to help clean up these sites. New London, New Haven, Stratford, Vernon, Waterbury and West Haven will also get money to help clean up everything from a school to an old button factory.

SB Friedman facilitated the closing of a $30.5 million New Markets Tax Credit financing supporting HDDC Front Porch, a mixed-use, mixed-income transit-oriented development in Atlanta's historic Sweet Auburn neighborhood. The project developer, Historic District Development Corporation, is a nonprofit that was cofounded by Coretta Scott King in 1980 to rehabilitate and revitalize the historic Atlanta neighborhoods around Martin Luther King's childhood home and church.

The Mayor s Office of Economic Development (OED) is seeking a firm or consultants who can provide a broad range of technical assistance services to cannabis equity applicants as outlined in the 2019  Ordinance Establishing Equitable Regulation of the Cannabis Industry in the City of Boston,  City of Boston Code, Ordinances, Chapter VIII, Section 8-13.3,  Boston Equity Program.

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