VILLAGE OF HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK
DRI GRANT WRITING SERVICES AND AWARD
The Village of Hempstead retained Laberge Group to provide ongoing grant services including a complete 2024 NYS Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) grant application process. In March of 2025, the application secured the Village of Hempstead the Long Island region’s $10 million dollar DRI award.
Laberge Group was pleased to partner with the Village of Hempstead to secure this funding which will be the catalyst for strengthening Downtown Hempstead as a thriving destination where individuals can live, work, and raise families in a vibrant, well-connected, and diverse community.
For the DRI process and application, a comprehensive Steering Committee of Village officials, residents, business owners and stakeholders was formed. Laberge Group led the committee in identifying projects and areas that would shape a transformative vision for the heart of Downtown Hempstead. Meetings and discussions with the Steering Committee and community members were the key to understanding the Village’s most pressing revitalization needs.
Laberge Group supplemented this in-person input by analyzing pertinent documents and previous grant applications. This input and analysis led to the collaborative development of revitalization priorities and projects that would leverage existing and anticipated investment with DRI funding to maximize resources toward significant revitalization.
For the DRI process, a comprehensive Steering Committee of Village officials, residents, business owners and stakeholders was formed. Laberge Group led the committee in identifying projects and areas that would shape a transformative vision for the heart of Downtown Hempstead.
Laberge Group assisted in crafting an award winning DRI application that comprehensively analyzed the needs and opportunities of the Village to help establish a broad vision, specific projects and plans for the Downtown Hempstead’s DRI area’s HOUSING, EDUCATION, ARTS AND CULTURE, RECREATION, and TRANSPORTATION; revitalizing the HEART of Hempstead.
Hempstead’s DRI application “Revitalizing the HEART of Hempstead” implemented powerful and persuasive strategies to reinforce and leverage growth in the Village of Hempstead’s core.
“Within the HEART of Hempstead, we will overcome environmental injustice and we will green our economy. Under this holistic downtown revitalization approach, the Village envisions excellent standards of living, safe settings, plentiful housing choices, complete streets, economic growth and stability, access to meaningful employment and healthcare, civic quality, and abundant physical and social amenities.”
Excerpt from the Hempstead DRI Application Vision Statement
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