March 29, 2024

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Taste the Home & Environment

IURA mulls grant for “shared industrial kitchen” analyze


ITHACA, N.Y.—One of those people factoids that the regional Website visitors Bureau likes to share is that Ithaca has more restaurants for each capita than New York City. Certainly, there is a solid “foodie” society in and around the metropolis of gorges.

This 7 days, the Ithaca City Renewal Agency’s Financial Growth Committee is thinking of funding a study to see if a shared industrial kitchen would give the area food processing and services market a healthier improve.

The IURA, which handles economic growth funding requests, will contemplate at its Tuesday assembly a $5,000 grant to enhance $16,000 in professional-bono consulting to conduct a feasibility review for a professional food stuff kitchen that, if practical, would be outfitted in an current constructing in Ithaca’s West Close community.