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Blighted Property Rehabilitation Program Neighborhood Commercial
Established in 2018, the Blighted Property Revitalization (NCR) Program
Rehabilitation (BPR) Program was created
to address vacant and blighted properties To learn more about the NCR Program,
throughout the city. The City allocates including eligibility requirements and
$100,000 annually to this program to be grant amounts, visit: https://www.
used by private and non-profit groups dsm.city/departments/development_
to acquire, demolish, or rehabilitate services/economic_development/
vacant, abandoned or blighted residential neighborhood_commercial_
properties within the city. These funds are revitalization_program.php#outer-3692
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available through the form of forgivable
loans and are approved by the City
Manager or City Council, depending on the
funding amount.
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Like many of the financial incentives offered
through the Local Option Sales Tax, the
BPR Program offers an additional tool to
maintain and improve historic structures and
other existing structures within Des Moines’
neighborhoods. This is just one of many
ways in which the fabric of neighborhoods
is being preserved throughout the city,
maintaining homes and communities that
are a defining feature of Des Moines.

Neighborhood Commercial
Revitalization Program
The Neighborhood Commercial
Revitalization (NCR) Program promotes
reinvestment in existing buildings primarily
located within neighborhood commercial
nodes and corridors. The NCR Program,
operated by the Office of Economic
Development, provides financial assistance
Figure 23. Chuck’s (3610 6th Avenue) in Highland Park, a
2 Darr, Kent. (2018, January 10). D.M. council adopts restaurant that is a successful example of work done through the
program to combat blighted properties. Business Record. Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization Program. Facade and
https://businessrecord.com/Content/Default/All-Latest- interior work was also part of this project. (Source: City of Des
News/Article/D-M-council-adopts-program-to-combat- Moines)
blighted-properties/-3/248/80860#:~:text=The%20
Des%20Moines%20City%20Council,improve%20
housing%20stock%20in%20neighborhoods.
3 Fourth Restated Urban Revitalization Plan. (n.d.).
https://www.dmaar.com/filesimages/1020%20Final%20
EXTERNAL%20DRAFT.pdf

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