Business View Magazine | April 2019

117 continues. “Through that process, we’ve been able to capture, in the last six or seven years, nearly $22 million worth of grants, and we’ve done some major infrastructure and redevel- opment projects. We’ve done the Center Street streetscape, which is our main corridor through downtown. We’ve completed a couple of phas- es, to date, and we’re getting ready to finish with the third phase. That has resulted in a lot of private sector investment. In 2013, we got a TIGER grant, which stands for Transportation Infrastructure Generating Economic Recovery. It’s a U.S. DOT (Department of Transporta- tion) grant that was originally created under President Obama’s administration. We got $10 million to knock out three blocks of that streetscape project as well as a couple of other things in the downtown area including the construction of a transit center. We received a second TIGER grant in 2016 for $5 million that we’re getting ready to start implementing in April. These great projects are really trans- forming the downtown area, and the private AT A GLANCE GOLDSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA WHAT: A city of 35,000 WHERE: In Wayne County, bordered by the Neuse and Little Rivers WEBSITE: www.goldsboronc.gov