Enhance Your Business’s Curb Appeal with the CRA’s Paint-Up & Signage Program
If you are a business owner in the CRA District and feel your brick-and-mortar location could use some improving, we’d love to help! Our Paint-Up & Signage Program was designed with you in mind, and as a way to help business owners ensure that their shop or business is as attractive on the outside as the business is on the inside.
Through Paint-Up & Signage Program, the CRA aims to help business and property owners throughout the CRA District improve the exterior of existing commercial buildings with a fresh coat of paint and signage. We are proud to highlight that this Program is available to all businesses throughout the CRA District.
Originally established by the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) to encourage existing building owners or tenants to improve the exterior of their buildings through a new coat of paint, the Program was later expanded to include signage. The overall goal of the Program is to allow the building owner or tenant to share the cost of adding signage to or painting an existing building with the CRA District. This helps the business to stand out to locals and visitors alike, hopefully increasing sales or service options.
To qualify for the Paint-Up & Signage Program, the physical business must be located in the CRA District. The CRA will provide a matching grant for up to 50% of the cost of approved exterior signage and painting projects, with a maximum of $5,000 per applicant per year. Approved projects include exterior painting, pressure cleaning and signage. Funding is budgeted on an annual basis and awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. All applications are subject to the approval of the CRA board.
If you’re interested in applying for this assistance, please submit a completed application accompanied by two estimates from licensed painters and/or sign companies. If the proposed painting or signage is part of a larger renovation or addition project, a total project budget will also need to be included.
Review and approval of the application may take up to four weeks to process. Improvement projects that begin before a grant application is approved by the CRA Board are not eligible for funding assistance under the Paint-Up & Signage Program. The Paint-Up & Signage Program is available in eight subareas located within the CRA District.
The Paint-Up & Signage Program is part of the CRA’s Community Redevelopment Plan, and the intent is to support redevelopment projects, commercial property improvements, and businesses throughout the CRA District in order to increase business opportunities and activity, increase job creation, and encourage commercial investment.
Our goal is to help all businesses within the CRA District thrive, and this Program is just one way to help your business stand out!
