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The former Jamestown Brewing Company, located at the corner of Third and Washington streets received $830,000 in state Downtown Revitalization Initiative funding.
P-J photo by Dennis Phillips
The jury is still out on the success of Jamestown’s inclusion in a statewide initiative to assist communities with transforming housing, economic development, transportation and community projects in downtown urban centers.
The statewide program is known as the Downtown Revitalization Initiative, which was started in 2016 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who announced the $100 million investment into 10 downtown communities – one municipality from each of the Regional Economic Development Councils. Jamestown won the competition in the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council during the first year of the program.