Grant and Funding Programs Offered by Township of Southgate

To advance economic development in Southgate by attracting new businesses, supporting local growth, and using municipal tools and partnerships to strengthen community prosperity and long-term development.

Township of Southgate is a Municipal government.

Township of Southgate's official website is https://www.southgate.ca/economic-development/southgate-community-improvement-plan/.

The Township of Southgate is the municipal government serving Southgate in Grey County, Ontario. Through its local governance, planning, development, and economic development responsibilities, the Township supports residents, businesses, developers, and community organizations while helping shape growth across the municipality. Southgate maintains a dedicated Economic Development function focused on attracting new businesses, supporting business retention and expansion, promoting investment, and working with public and private sector partners to advance local opportunity. The Township identifies its municipal role as significant in creating economic opportunity, including through project development, marketing, site promotion, and collaboration with regional partners such as Grey County. A central element of Southgate's role in the funding ecosystem is its Community Improvement Plan (CIP). The Southgate CIP is designed to revitalize and improve the municipality through fund-matching grants and other incentives that support downtown revitalization, building improvements, redevelopment of brownfield and greyfield properties, agricultural uses, and affordable and attainable housing projects. The CIP includes a broad range of tools, such as tax increment equivalent grants, building and land improvement grants, facade and signage improvement grants, landscaping and parking area improvement grants, accessibility and public health and safety improvement grants, destination infrastructure grants, planning and building permit fee grants, development charges grants, housing rehabilitation and conversion grants, startup space leasehold improvement grants, and environmental study grants. Because of these programs, the Township of Southgate acts not only as a municipal authority but also as a direct local provider of incentives for investment, rehabilitation, housing, and business development.