Community Facilities

Below are community facility programs offered by the Business and Community Services Division. To learn more, click on the program name or the corresponding link at the left.

Brownfield Redevelopment Program - Provides financial incentives for the redevelopment of commercial/industrial sites that are contaminated with hazardous substances and have been abandoned or under utilized for at least three years.

Community Development Block Grant - Provides financial assistance to local governments for public improvements. Qualifying districts and nonprofit organizations may also receive CDBG funding through their local government. The state CDBG program is available to non-entitlement cities and counties in Missouri.

Community Service Commission - Established in 1994 as a direct response to the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993. The Commission operates as a point organization for promoting and recognizing service volunteers and is dedicated to fostering opportunities for all citizens to serve their communities. The Missouri Community Service Commission oversees AmeriCorps programs.

Delta Regional Authority - Helps economically distressed communities to leverage other federal and state programs which are focused on basic infrastructure development and transportation improvements, business development, and job training services.

Enhanced Enterprise Zone - Provides tax credits to new or expanding businesses in a specified geographic area designated by local governments and certified by the Department of Economic Development (DED).

Historic Preservation - Provides an incentive to eligible applicants for rehabilitation of commercial or residential historic structures in the state of Missouri. The incentive is in the form of tax credits equal to 25% of the eligible rehabilitation expenditures of qualified historic structures.

MORESA - Provides supplemental state financial assistance for the redevelopment of designated economically depressed rural areas and financial incentives exclusively for the development of renewable fuel and other value-added agricultural product production facilities. The improvement district must be contiguous and legally designated a blighted area, not comprising more than 10% of the entire area of the municipality.

Neighborhood Assistance Program - A contribution tax credit program that allows approved agencies to offer contributors an incentive of tax credits to leverage local dollars for community development activities.

Neighborhood Preservation Act - Issues state tax credits to a homeowner who rehabilitates a home or to a homeowner or developer that constructs a new home for owner-occupancy in certain areas of the state. This act authorizes state tax credits for eligible residential rehabilitation and construction costs for properties located in distressed communities or defined census blocks.

Youth Opportunities Program - A contribution tax credit program that allows approved agencies to offer contributors an incentive of tax credits to leverage local dollars for positive youth development programming.

Business and Community Services
301 W. High Street, Rooms 720, 770, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102
Tel: 800-523-1434    Fax: 573-751-7384   Email: missouridevelopment@ded.mo.gov