JERSEYVILLE – Governor JB Pritzker along with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Wednesday awarded Regional Site Readiness Program Grants totaling $31 million to 24 sites across the state.

The program includes two competitive funding opportunities: Planning grants to support due diligence activities, studies and site plans, and Capital Ready grants to support capital infrastructure improvements. Through this funding, 13 Planning grantees and 11 Capital Ready grantees will undertake due diligence and development projects to better prepared sites to attract future investment and new job opportunities in the industrial sector across Illinois’ Economic Development Regions.

In our area no one was awarded a Capital Ready Grant.

As for Planning grants, the City of Metropolis was awarded $150,000 for environmental due diligence and site design for 237 acres at the Metropolis Industrial Park.