Identify and Encourage creative uses for empty industrial buildings

Iowa

currently no identified tool

Rhode Island

•	Partnership for Creative Industrial Space (PCIS)
•	Providence based advocacy group
•	Tax breaks

Montana

Montana officials applied for an Americorp grant to train 18 volunteers in construction skills by restoring existing, abandoned buildings

•	The owners of the buildings will pay for the materials, but the volunteers do the labor. The hope is for art galleries, coffee shops and studios to move in.
•	More Info

Maine

Currently no tools identifies