Tinley considers grants to boost downtown businesses

Tinley Park trustees are considering a host of grant programs that would initially be aimed at attracting new retail businesses to the Oak Park Avenue business district as well as helping current businesses that want to expand.

Grants could also help existing businesses make facade and landscape improvements or help cover costs of installing fire sprinkler systems and fire alarms, according to a village document outlining the proposed program…Please click here to read Mike Nolan’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.