Oakland Residential Facade Grant Program

OPDC is no longer accepting applications for the 2013 funding period. Please check back in spring 2014 for next year’s grant!

Oakland Planning and Development Corporation (OPDC) partners with homeowners and landlords through our Residential Façade Grant Program to increase social and economic capital in Oakland. The program restores historic character to our neighborhood’s homes, instills pride and strength in our community and catalyzes neighborhood investment and preservation. Façade improvements achieve several benefits, simply by enhancing a building’s exterior appearance. Not only do property values increase at the renovated building, but at adjacent properties as well.

The Façade Grant Program is available to residential property owners in all four neighborhoods of Oakland – Central, North, South and West. With a limit of $5,000 per grant, awardees receive a 1 to 1 match for an owner-occupied building, and a 1 to 2 match for a non-owner-occupied building.

Read about how Parkview Avenue resident Amanda Froelich used her Oakland Facade Grant in 2012.

For more information, contact OPDC at 412.621.7863 ext. 12 or email efisher@opdc.org.

The Façade Grant Program is an initiative of the Oakland Neighborhood Partnership Program (NPP), launched by OPDC in 2008 with Oakland Business Improvement District (OBID), Oakland Transportation Management Association (OTMA), Community Human Services (CHS), and People’s Oakland. The NPP is made possible through funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Neighborhood Assistance Tax Credit Program, with investments from Dollar Bank, PNC Bank, and UPMC Health Plan.

1 Comment to "Oakland Residential Facade Grant Program"

Darlene Harris

February 26, 2013

hello just wanted to state how glad I am to see this program. For years i have been in need of some professional help for the out side of my home. So this grant is exciting to see. My only concern when viewing the grant information was obtaining a contractor to do the work. I have experienced the the greates out comes when hiring someone to work with me that I could trust. I was just wondering is their are a list of good contractors the program have worked with and have trusted to do a good and complete job. A company that knows their craft.

Sincerly,
Darlene Harris
Home onwer / Oakland community.

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