Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh
Development Opportunities
Financial Assistance/Tools:
URA Financing
Streetface Program (click for guidelines in Business Development)
The Streetface Program is designed to provide funds to commercial building owners and tenants to improve their building facades, and is part of the City's Mainstreet Program. Improved facades make a neighborhood shopping district more attractive and inviting to potential shoppers.
The Streetface Program complements and supports other public and private efforts and investments in the neighborhoods that have a common goal of improving the quality of life and maintaining the neighborhood as a desirable place to live. These efforts include City housing programs that encourage reinvestment in the neighborhood's housing stock and local efforts to revitalize business districts through promotion, better maintenance and new business recruitment.
Streetface is part of the Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) strategy to promote opportunities for those groups who have not had ready access to business financing in the City of Pittsburgh, including minority- and woman-owned businesses.
Urban Development Fund (UDF) (click for guidelines in Business Development)
The Urban Development Fund (UDF) Program is designed to stimulate the growth of new and existing businesses in the City of Pittsburgh. The UDF provides market-rate gap financing for small- to medium-sized non-residential real estate development where vacant or under-utilized property will be put to productive use and where the applicant is unable to finance fully the proposed project with equity, bank financing and other private and public financing.
The UDF is part of the Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) strategy to promote opportunities for those groups who have not had ready access to business financing in the City of Pittsburgh, including minority- and woman-owned businesses.