Granville Grocery Store
PROJECT: Extend Public Infrastructure/Municipal Services to PC Foods Granville Grocery Store
Grant Amount: $315,000
Agency: IL Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO)
Applicant/Grantee: Village of Granville
Total Project Cost: $ 546,072
Infrastructure Project Description: The Village of Granville received a $315,000 grant from DCEO to facilitate the location of a new grocery store in the Village. This replaced the grocery store that was destroyed by a devastating fire in May 2000. The grant was used to extend municipal water service, sanitary sewer, storm sewer and roadway to the site and to make roadway improvements to Grant Street, which leads to the site. Gemion, Inc. (the project developers) invested $231,072.00 of private funds into the infrastructure portion of the project to combine with the CDAP grant in order to complete project budget. PC Foods created a total of twenty-one (21) full time jobs. The private investment in this project was over $1,343,000.