Loans & Grants

The city-wide White Box program is designed to provide targeted financial incentives to increase the vitality of the neighborhood commercial corridors. The funds will assist in recruiting new businesses to vacant commercial/retail tenants spaces in commercial buildings.

JPMorgan Chase, as part of its Partnerships for Raising Opportunity in Neighborhoods (PRO Neighborhoods) competition awarded $3.5 million to the Brew City Match. The purpose of the program is to help fuel economic development in under served communities. The program is being launched within the Historic King Drive, North Avenue & Fond du Lac, and Cesar Chavez Drive corridors, and connects new and expanding businesses with quality commercial real estate, business training, and funding to fuel the revival of Milwaukee’s historic commercial corridors.

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