WASHPO: Grant aims to spruce up St. E's area

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By Ovetta Wiggins

Thursday, September 23, 2010


The Commerce Department is providing more than $500,000 in grants to benefit areas around the former St. Elizabeths Hospital as the Department of Homeland Security consolidates its operations in Southeast Washington.


The grants are part of a federal effort to help distressed communities by working with local governments to "create higher-skill, living-wage jobs, advance regional competitiveness and generate private sector investment," said officials from the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration.

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