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Small businesses thankful for Valley Metro grant program (Downtown Devil/DD) Four months after the city of Phoenix and Valley Metro launched the Small Business Financial Assistance Program (SBFAP), local business owners in downtown Phoenix say they appreciate the boost. The one-year pilot program provides direct financial assistance to locally-owned and eligible small businesses next to the Northwest Extension Phase II and South Central Extension/Downtown Hub projects. Hilda Pena, owner of Botas Juarez, a boot barn in south Phoenix, has been approved for a $9,000 grant. She said she’s thankful to the City of Phoenix and Valley Metro for organizing the grant. Pena mentioned that Valley Metro and the City of Phoenix also provided different tools that would help her, such as a map of the light rail that runs by her storefront. ....