Discover how Mayor Jones’s official travel to Washington, DC and various national conferences has fostered significant federal and philanthropic support for St. Louis. Learn about the direct grant awards and community benefits resulting from her strategic relationship.
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Mayor Jones’s official travel to Washington, DC and conferences throughout the nation are instrumental in the City of St. Louis’s federal and philanthropic successes. She has leveraged longstanding and newly created relationships to benefit the residents of St. Louis, including, but not limited to the following direct grant awards.
U.S. Department of Commerce – Economic Development Administration (EDA) ● $25 million Greater St. Louis Build Back Better Regional Challenge U.S. Department of Education
● Support for $20.8 million Promise Neighborhoods grant from the U.S. Department of Education to Urban Strategies, Inc. to help students gain academic success in the 63106-zip code.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
● $25,834,000 to the City of St. Louis through HUD’s Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery Program to support long-term recovery in response to the historic flash floods of July 26, 2022.
● $5 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant for the Near Northside Project.
● $3,606,493 for HUD’s FY 2024 Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant program. The funds will allow the City to address lead hazards in 240 housing units providing safer homes for low and very low-income families with children and other medical and social service providers.
● $1,555,629 YouthBuild grant awarded to St. Louis Agency on Training and
Employment (SLATE) program to help 65 youth obtain certifications and develop and
enhance job skills to create paths necessary for sustainable employment.
● $1 million YouthBuild grant awarded to SLATE.
● Good Jobs, Good Cities Academy
U.S. Department of Transportation
● Federal Aviation Administration Grants:
o $29.1 million to St. Louis/Lambert International Airport to fund
reconstruction of the existing Taxiway C pavement and pavement from Taxiway P
to M and J to G. This grant also funds the purchase and installation of
zero-emissions equipment, including an electric sweeper and charging station.
o $20 million to St. Louis Lambert International Airport to fund airfield
drainage improvements and new storage buildings for snow removal equipment,
sand and chemicals, a maintenance bay, and airfield maintenance equipment that
need to be relocated out of the floodplain to improve resiliency.
o $7,008,000 to St. Louis Lambert International Airport to replace
approximately 10 passenger boarding bridges and connected power conditioned
air and ground power units.
● Secured the Congressional approval and DOT support that led to the $27,675,000
transportation disaster grant awarded to Bi-State Development Agency of the
Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District in response to the historic floods of July 26,
2022.
● Supported East-West Gateway’s Safe Streets and Roads for All, regional grant that
was awarded $580,551.92.
● Supported Brickline Greenway: Midtown I-64 Crossing’s Reconnecting
Communities proposal that was awarded $9,925,000.
U.S. Department of Treasury
● $498,076,054 in American Rescue Plan Act Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal
Recovery Funds (ARPA-SLFRF).
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
● City of St. Louis participating in two awarded Solar for All grants:
● The State of Missouri’s application will receive $156.12 million.
● Growth Opportunity Partners’ Industrial Heartland Solar Coalition’s
transformative imitative will receive $156.12 million. See Growth Opportunity
Partners press release here.
● $500,000 Brownfields Assessment grant issued to St. Louis Community Development
Administration (CDA).
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