Davenport, Iowa wisely blocks TIF funding for renovation of dead retail strip center $500 million in TIGER grants to renovate infrastructure for economic growth New round of Choice Neighborhood revitalization grants: Up to $2 million each Wisconsin offers up to $1 million each for cleaning and reusing idle industrial sites Kresge announces 20 grants of $75,000 for food-based community revitalization This $25 trillion resource could help revitalize distressed neighborhoods 13 New York downtowns get surprise gift of $1.2 million for revitalization from state $350 million to help private landowners do grassland & wetland restoration projects Littleton, NH downtown riverfront revitalization effort gets $500,000 grant Industrial Revitalization Grants awarded to reuse old buildings in Salisbury, NC SouthWest Airlines funds Mexico City park renovation & neighborhood revitalization 50 rural communities plan revitalization, competing in $6 million “America’s Best” $20 million for Great Lakes Restoration projects in Clinton River, Michigan area Funding and design assistance announced for rural communities $2.1 million available to U.S. communities for watershed restoration partnerships RFP: EPA offers $13.2 million in 2016 to clean up toxic brownfields in US cities