Grundy Center moving forward with Main Street process

    GRUNDY CENTER — A group of Grundy Center leaders is moving forward with the process of the community applying to be part of the Main Street Iowa Program.
    John Schuller, who is co-chairing the application committee along with Erika Allen, said the desire to do something like Main Street Iowa goes back a full year to when he met with then-Mayor Rex Van Wert about some concerns about the direction that the community’s Business Innovation Grant (BIG) Program was going.
    “When we established the BIG Program, the grant money for the city, it was really meant to be more of a facade and infrastructure program, and of late it had turned into more of a ... it was supposed to be not just a facade, but a higher quality,” Schuller said.
    “We were seeing (the BIG Program) used for things like signs in the front,” he said. “That wasn’t the original intent of the program. It

For more of this story see the Nov. 27 Grundy Register.