The Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program announced this week it is taking applications for its 2018 cost-share grants — possibly for the last time before the program sunsets next year.
Applications for the cost-share grants will be taken through May 10. More details may be found here.
The federal program, under the auspices of the National Park Service, is scheduled to sunset in the fall of 2019. When asked whether the 2018 cost-share grants would be the last ones, program director Kaisa Barthuli stated in an email that remains “to be determined.”
The cost-share program generally gives money to preservation projects ranging from new roofs on structures to new climate-control systems for businesses to restoring historic neon signs. But the program also have awarded grants for educational programs, oral histories, documentary films, websites and more.
Since 2001, the program has awarded 139 cost-share grants totaling $5.5 million in private and public investment.
(Image of the Wilder’s Steakhouse rooftop neon sign in Joplin, Missouri, which recently was restored with the help of a Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program cost-share grant)
So happy to hear the good news. So many of us rely on this type of help to preserve 66 corridor properties