New Hill receives over $900,000 grant for construction
New Hill Development Corporation has received a grant of more than $900,000 from Gov. Abigail Spanberger to support its ongoing work in culinary entrepreneurship.
New Hill Development Corporation receives grant to support shared-use commercial kitchen
Governor Spanberger announced a grant award of $962,958 for the Charlottesville-based nonprofit operating BEACON Kitchen.
Where Culinary Craft Meets Community Growth
Beacon Kitchen looks to uplift aspiring chefs
The establishment offers chefs access to fully equipped kitchen space and tools for part-time or full-time use, based on their needs.
BEACON Kitchen construction is underway in Belmont
The BEACON kitchen project will be a full-equipped shared-use kitchen for entrepreneurs.
Right now, it’s under construction in Charlottesville’s Belmont neighborhood.
New Hill Development has a BEACON pilot kitchen on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall.
“It’s pretty miraculous seeing going from blueprints to being at the construction site, seeing the infrastructure being laid down,” BEACON Director David Givens said
BEACON Kitchen construction is underway in Belmont
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -The BEACON kitchen project will be a full-equipped shared-use kitchen for entrepreneurs. Right now, it’s under construction in Charlottesville’s Belmont neighborhood.
Council reallocates another $90K in federal funds to BEACON kitchen
The City of Charlottesville’s approach to the use of federal funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is shifting, with Council agreeing twice in the past two months to reprogram money from public infrastructure to private infrastructure.
New Hill Development Receives City Contribution
Recently, the Office of Economic Development presented
New Hill Development Corporation a $500,000 check as part
of the city’s commitment to the BEACON shared-use
commercial kitchen project.
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New Hill Development Corporation got its start from a series of conversations about the history and future of Black wealth in Charlottesville. In early 2017, Wes Bellamy and Kathy Galvin, then City Council members, gathered a group of Black entrepreneurs and community leaders to talk about Black representation in city development. But the scope of the discussion quickly grew.
They wanted to develop sustainable economic power for Black communities, so they set out to understand the history of that power.
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New Hill Development Corporation got its start from a series of conversations about the history and future of Black wealth in Charlottesville. In early 2017, Wes Bellamy and Kathy Galvin, then City Council members, gathered a group of Black entrepreneurs and community leaders to talk about Black representation in city development. But the scope of the discussion quickly grew.
They wanted to develop sustainable economic power for Black communities, so they set out to understand the history of that power.