Funding applications have opened again for more Ararat district business owners keen to give their business façades a facelift.
Ararat Rural City Council had a successful Façades Improvement Grants Scheme last year and is keen to do more.
The council provides grants of up to $5000 on a dollar-for-dollar basis for Ararat businesses to maintain or refresh the municipality’s shopfronts. In this round of grants it has budgeted $50,000.
Council chief executive Tim Harrison said he was pleased to see the scheme return for 2020.