Hello. I own a restaurant with *perfect* frontage 1 block South of the geographical center of my hometown of ~35,000 people.
We have fallen on hard times in the last 3 months. There were 8 different restaurants that closed their doors for good in that time, but we're still hanging on - but only by a thread.
I am interested in finding more information about any type of grant/loan that can help us pull through until the summer time, when we begin to actually *make* money.
Also, as a side note, I am interested in a grant that would allow me to purchase the entire block that my restaurant sits on. It's actually 1 and 1/3 blocks that has my restaurant, an attached Best Western Hotel and another hotel (as well as separate buildings for laundry, maintenance, etc.) They have frontage of our 'Main St.' as well as our 'Center St.' - literally right in the middle of our town. I would like to tear it all down and build a destination resort...something with about 500 rooms, a nice restaurant, and several shops, all 'old-English' in style to go along with current plans of our University's plan to incorporate an entire stretch of 2 city blocks as a 'Medieval Village' for their Rennaissance Festival and Tony Award winning Shakespearean Festival right behind the property I've mentioned.
Any help on either subject would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for any information that could be passed along to me!
Sincerely,
CGower
