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Century Identifies Grant Application Projects: Community Center, Street Design And Housing Repair
April 30, 2025
The Century Town Council on Tuesday night identified several projects for potential grant funding.
Three members of the public (pictured above) and council member elect John Bass attended Tuesday night’s public hearing and offered input on potential projects.
The town will apply for a Small Cities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) from Florida Commerce, focusing on three requests:
- design for potential resurfacing of Barnwell Lane, East and West Cottage streets, and Cedar Street.
- construction of the Carver Community Center on Jefferson Avenue
- minor home repair program
The street portion of the request would be design only in anticipation of potential paving at a later date for Barnwell Lane, Cedar Street, and both East and West Cottage streets.
The minor home repair program would provide home repairs to address structural code enforcement issues and access issues such as ramps that would allow low or moderate income individuals to remain in their homes for a longer period of time. The town will determine later if roofing repairs or upgrades might be included.
If awarded, grant funds would construct a new Carver Community Center (design pictured below) on Jefferson Avenue. The town previously received a $3.255 million state grant for a community center on Jefferson Avenue, but most of the funds were clawed back by the state. The town was able to use $514,650 to pay for the engineering, architectural and grant administer expenses that left the town with no building but a complete set of shovel-ready drawings.
The town will finalize their CDBG grant application following a final public hearing at 5:45 p.m. on May 6. Applications are due by May 16. The potential dollar figures for the grants is not yet known.
NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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6 Responses to “Century Identifies Grant Application Projects: Community Center, Street Design And Housing Repair”
@Racheed Well said!!! Look at some of the habitat for humanity homes that were built after the tornado. Most are not taken care of…
What a waste! Let’s put money into a community center that will look the same way in a couple years! How bout putting a little attention to our growing youth programs. Showalter park and the baseball field on church street for example. Concession stand needs an upgrade and cameras.The fields could use new fencing. Also could look into making a couple new fields to accommodate the overflow of teams coming to the park. Over 200 kids this year and could have been a lot more with proper fielding for games and practices. Put the money to something that will bring revenue back to the town!
@Rasheed The same reason they won’t clean up their own neighborhoods and just wait until it gets bad enough the community gets tired of looking at it and does it for them. They don’t care, they have no pride, and they rather ask or wait for handouts and spend their time and money on things that benefit themselves. Century has been a deteriorated town for as long as I have been alive. It hasn’t changed a bit since the 1960s and honestly looks almost the exact same.
If the residents of Century feel the need for a community center, why not have fund raisers and raise the funds yourself instead of begging the state for money. There is an old community center already and it has rotted to the ground. If people were truly concerned and there was a need, why didn’t they take care of the one they already had. Also asking the state for money to do home improvements is a slap in the face of the people who are responsible and do their own home repairs. If there are people in the community that need help, then why doesn’t the community step up and help them. No, the good people of Century would rather sit back, do nothing and beg the state for tax dollars.
How about a “ Congratulations , Leaving Century “ neon sign .
Hopefully the benefactors of these grants will not continue to feed this failed town money.