• Downtown Developers Programs
This section showcases MSHDA's role in assisting communities with downtown revitalization efforts through various programs and initiatives. Currently, there are six different downtown related programs administered by MSHDA's Community Assistance Team. For additional information, contact our office at 517.241.1737.

• Blueprints for Neighborhoods
The Blueprints for Michigan's Neighborhoods program is designed to help revitalize a community's neighborhood through the development of a comprehensive strategy and implementation of the Neighborhood Enterprise Zone (NEZ) program.

• Blueprints for Downtowns
This program takes a comprehensive, market-driven approach toward developing an action-oriented, downtown enhancement strategy. The prime objective is to develop an action strategy that will, over a five-year period of implementation time, move forward your community's traditional downtown toward economic enhancement. Measurable results that will be tracked include the creation of new private jobs and private investment in the downtown. The process of the "Blueprints" program will be highly inclusive, will take approximately five months to complete, and will result in the issuance of an action strategy.

• Downtown Planning Program
MSHDA offers downtown economic development matching planning grants to communities. These grants are intended to help communities accomplish downtown-specific public planning activities.

• Downtown CDBG Program
CDBG Information

• Non-Industrial Brownfields
MSHDA's Community Assistance Team provides assistance for non-industrial brownfield projects.

• Michigan Main Street