Counseling, loan funds to support Western Massachusetts businesses >Published: 7/1/2021 6:12:08 PM
GREENFIELD The state recently announced additional financial support to small businesses in Western Massachusetts, including those in Franklin County.
The Greenfield-based Franklin County Community Development Corporation (CDC) was awarded $1.25 million of loan capital and grants for businesses in Western Massachusetts, according to a Franklin County CDC press release. CDC Executive Director John Waite said that about 1 million of those funds, awarded by the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation, will be loans, and about $200,000 will be for grants for small businesses.
“We’ve been lending to small businesses for almost 40 years,” Waite said. “This will allow us to do more flexible lending to people who previously did not have access to credit.”
And a Downtown Celebration. And SteepleCats games and a farmers market and movies at Colegrove Park and music at Windsor Lake. It s going to be the best summer ever, said the city s Tourism Director Suzy Helme. Helme was updating members of the North Adams Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday on the events that will be taking place this summer now that the state of emergency instituted during the pandemic is set to be lifted by mid-June. It was a lost summer last year for residents and tourists alike with the cancellation of several high-profile anniversaries including the city s 125th anniversary along with concerts, exhibitions and local community events.
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