**  Press Release -Grant Programs for Downtown Businesses (CRA) and Commercial Properties (Gateway) **

Downtown Businesses – Need assistance with exterior lighting or the facade?  Creating or retaining a retail business or residential units?  Have an upper floor needing refurbishment?  Rehabilitating a building?

Commercial Properties – Need assistance with renovation?

Click here to find out more!  Be sure to ask about the Green Options Supplement Incentive.

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Mission Statement

Our mission is to encourage economic development by retaining and facilitating the expansion of existing businesses, attracting new high value, high wage businesses to the area and fostering the development of complimentary business clusters.  The City recognizes the importance of maintaining partnerships with local, County, regional and State agencies and organizations in promoting the economic prosperity of DeLand.

Many communities talk about being pro-business, but few have been as progressive in establishing tangible methods and procedures to ensure a streamlined permitting process that will allow new and expanding companies to move from planning to production in the shortest time possible.

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