Community partnership key to $10M opportunity

Folks begin to make their way to downtown Clinton businesses on Monday morning, March 6. Last week, officials announced that the village of Clinton and the town of Kirkland were jointly awarded a $10 million grant from New York’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative aimed at revitalizing the popular community hub. Alexis Manore Staff writer email / twitter CLINTON — After years of hard work, rejection and perseverance, members of the Kirkland and Clinton communities are ecstatic to have won $10 million as the Mohawk Valley winner of the sixth round of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI). And, now, officials say, attention turns to turning the award into a transformation everyone can be proud of. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the winners last Thursday with Clinton/Kirkland joining such previous DRI winners as Utica, Rome, Amsterdam, Oneida, Oneonta and Little Falls. Clinton and Kirkland applied for this funding twice — in 2019 and 2021 — before its third application was accepted. The application efforts were entirely volunteer-driven, and in December 2021, community members officially formed the Clinton Kirkland Improvement Corporation (CKIC), a nonprofit that aims to develop and implement projects that boost economic and community advancement for Kirkland and Clinton residents. […]

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