Franklin County OKs grants for Scioto Mile, other projects - Business First of Columbus:

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The commissioners laid out $1.17 million to the Columbus DowntowbnDevelopment Corp. through a so-called community partnership grant forthe $38 milliomn Scioto Mile project, a public-private partnershi p whose chief sponsors are the city of Columbus and The appropriation is part of a four-year, $5 millionm commitment commissioners made to the Commissioners appropriated $1.5 million last year and are set to give abouyt $1.17 million this and the next two said Amy Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Developmen Corp.
Construction of the Sciotl Mile, which includes improvements to Bicentennial Park and features that will make Civicd Center Drive more accommodatingfor pedestrians, is a key piece of the run-ul to the city’s 2012 • $500,000 for ’s Grange Insurances Audubon Center, the educational element of the new Sciotio Audubon Metro Park. The approaching a $14.5 million fundraising is on track for asummef opening, officials told Columbus Businesd First. • $200,000 for youth developmen activities ofthe , the outreach arm of the university’x agricultural school.
The grant arrives at a criticalp time forthe organization, which recentlt cut 25 jobs at its Columbus headquartere and is bracing for its budget to fall by more than $6 millionj over the three-year budget cycle that began last July.