(Batesville, IN) – Round 2 of the 2025 Batesville Main Street Re-Envision Grant is now open.
The Re-Envision Grant is an incentive-based program aimed at providing financial support for qualifying property owners and tenants to re-envision and activate unused or underused spaces within their existing building to make the space available for a new retail, restaurant, food service, or specialty shop.
It’s also available to financially support projects for permanent interior improvements to existing retail, restaurant, food service or specialty shops aimed at enhancing the consumer experience.
The Re-Envision Grant Round 2 is available to building owners and tenants located within the Batesville Main Street District and is a dollar-for-dollar matching grant. A total of $15,000.00 is available under the program. Funds awarded under the Re-Envision Grant Round 2 must be used by recipients to renovate, reformat, expand, reinvigorate, modify, or otherwise prepare the interior space of an existing building to (1) prepare with the intent to lease the space to a new or additional retail, restaurant, food service, or specialty shop; or (2) make permanent improvements to an existing retail, restaurant, food service or specialty shop with the goal of enhancing the consumer experience.
“Batesville Main Street is excited to offer the Re-Envision Grant Round 2 application process for 2025 to our downtown district businesses with the goal of recruiting and adding new retail and restaurant offerings or to enhance the consumer experience in existing businesses,” said Batesville Main Street Executive Director Amy Pretzer. “This grant is in its third year and has been able to fund some great projects. We hope that releasing a Round 2 to the popular grant will capture those businesses that were not ready to apply in Round 1 at the beginning of the year and look forward to an increase in the vitality of downtown. The 2025 Re-Envision Grant continues to build on our organizational goals to continually expand and improve market offerings enhancing the overall experience of the Batesville Main Street District.”
Batesville Main Street is accepting applications for the Re-Envision Grant with final applications due on August 8.
Grant recipients will be notified by August 18.
Application packets and more information about the Re-Envision Grant can be found at www.batesvillemainstreet.org, by contacting Amy Pretzer at the Batesville Memorial Building or at batesvilleinmainstreet@gmail.com.
The Re-Envision Grant was made possible thanks to funding provided by the Batesville Economic Development Commission.
