Investments for Public Works and Economic Development Facilities

Through the primarily construction-oriented Public Works program, EDA provides catalytic investments to help distressed communities build, design, or engineer critical infrastructure and facilities that will help implement regional development strategies and advance bottom-up economic development goals to promote regional prosperity. The Public Works program provides resources to meet the construction and/or infrastructure design needs of communities to enable them to become more economically competitive. Examples of projects that have been funded previously include, but are not limited to: • acquisition and development of land and improvements for use in public works or other types of development facilities; • design and engineering, construction, rehabilitation, alteration, expansion, or improvement of public works, public service, or related development facilities, including related machinery and equipment; • water and sewer system improvements; • creation or expansion of industrial parks; • creation or expansion of business incubator and accelerator facilities; • expansion of port and harbor facilities; • construction or expansion of facilities for workforce development; • redevelopment of brownfield sites; • expansion, construction, or improvements of technology-based facilities and research and development commercialization centers, including the procurement of necessary equipment; • construction, expansion, or improvement of wet labs, including the procurement of necessary equipment; • construction of multi-tenant manufacturing facilities; • expansion or improvement of research, business and science parks; and • expansion or enhancement of public facilities with higher quality fiber optic cables and telecommunications infrastructure and broadband infrastructure deployment.