Corridor Management
About the CDC Department
Through its partnerships with Wells Fargo Bank, Home Depot, Gift in Kind International and other corporate sponsors, ACANA engages in projects to rehabilitate and restore abandoned, dilapidated or blighted buildings in and around the Chester Avenue corridor, and collaborates with other community partners to ensure that Chester Avenue is a thriving and inviting place to live and work. As part of these efforts, ACANA also has a corridor cleaning program sponsored by the Commerce Department of the City of Philadelphia, where it cleans and beautifies the four block surrounding stretch of Chester Avenue.
Additionally, ACANA is engaged in a corridor development program intended on improving businesses in the Southwest Philadelphia. This program targets three main corridors: Elmwood Avenue, Woodland Avenue and Chester Avenue, and connects small business owners with information and resources that can help grow and improve their businesses and the corridor in general. Sponsored by the Commerce Department of the City of Philadelphia, participating businesses can gain access to resources for storefront improvement, grants and loans, and other vital business enhancement information.
As part of the community development department, ACANA provides two main services: providing resources to needy community residents regardless of background, and engaging in projects or activities that can aid in the vitalization of Chester Avenue.
Corridor Cleaning
Projects and Activities
Commercial Corridor Revitalization Project
Southwest Strong Small Business Grant
ACANA CDC Yearly Program
ACANA CDC -Business Development:
Over the past six years, ACANA CDC managed to quantify 606 small businesses on four commercial corridors in Southwest Philadelphia.
Woodland Avenue Corridor: 320 business establishments
Elmwood Avenue Corridor: 114 business establishments
Chester Avenue Corridor : 60 business establishments
Baltimore Avenue Corridor: 112 business establishments
Total: 606
ACANA CDC continue to provide ongoing assistance to 606 business owners in the following
- Grants applications
- Loans applications
- Technical assistances
- Storefront Improvement
- See through grills
- City resource connection
- Business development and growth
Partners.
- Philadelphia Department of Commerce
- Woodland Avenue Business Association
- Women’s Opportunity Resource Center (WORC)
- Southwest CDC
- Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation
- Philadelphia Housing Authority
- West Philadelphia Corridor Collaborative
- Community First Trust Fund
- The Enterprise Center
- PIDC
ACANA CDC small business support system is an eco-system gear toward assisting existing micro business owners through an all-inclusive approach and attracting new businesses. The goal is to meet resident’s demand for goods and services and to increase the availability of goods and services on all of ACANA’s contracted commercial corridors. ACANA strategies is to increase small business development and support small businesses growth and development for sustainability. ACANA strategy efforts include working together with the business association, stakeholders and residents of the community.
Department Head
CDC: Musa Trawally
Corridor Administrator