The Gardner City Council adopted a resolution to create a neighborhood revitalization program in four zones within Gardner during a meeting Jan. 7
The zones, three business and one residential, will benefit from a tax rebate once the program is completed.
According to Larry Powell, Gardner director of business and economic development, the proposed revitalization program follows the success of a similar program that ran between 1997 and 2007. (There was a final payout in December of 2017.)
He said Gardner was the first city in the county to establish a neighborhood revitalization project and the first to complete it.
He said that in that project one of the businesses recouped the entire cost of constructing a new building.
“This program promotes the revitalization and development of the city of Gardner by stimulating new construction and the rehabilitation and development of the city in order to enhance the public health, safety and welfare of the residents of the city,” he said.
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