The Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency approved a new storm mitigation grant program offering up to $100,000 in reimbursements to help downtown businesses protect themselves from hurricane flooding, with five local businesses already receiving approval for funding.
Watch Fort Myers Community Correspondent Miyoshi Price’s report:
Fort Myers CRA awards up to $100K each, storm Grants for 5 Downtown Businesses
The program, which reimburses 75% of eligible costs up to $100,000 per business, was created in response to repeated flooding damage from recent hurricanes including Ian, Helene and Milton that have devastated the downtown area.
“The mitigation grants are done to protect anybody in the CRA area that has been prone to flooding the last few hurricanes,” said Fred Burson, chairman for Ward 5 on the CRA commission. “We are offering the businesses or residents reimbursement up to $100,000, 75% of the cost to barricade yourself in through some type of storm mitigation.”…