Project, grant, property owner if applicable, and purpose for grant. Grants listed are from the fifth year of Back to Basics (2002-2003) or are unpaid carryovers from previous years.
REAL MONEY
Silver Screen- Tucson Fox Theatre Foundation: $260,000
- Nonprofit corp.
- Roof and marquee and façade for old Star building.
- Toole Avenue/Warehouse District: $190,000
- Arizona Department of Transportation
- Structural and code upgrades, preservation.
- Rialto Block Historic Preservation Project: $150,000
- Rialto Redux LLC, Doug Biggers
- Restoration of 1919 sister to Hotel Congress.
- Main Library Plaza: $100,000
- City of Tucson
- Improvements to performance area, seating and farmers market.
- Public Glassworks Facility Rehab: $97,000
- Sonoran Art Foundation
- Ramada with utilities, repair and landscaping.
- Tucson Convention Center: $66,000
- City of Tucson
- Kiosks, landscaping and paint.
- Tucson Police Downtown: $66,000
- City of Tucson
- Electric vehicles, bikes and communications equipment.
- Johnny Gibson Plaza: $60,000
- Johnny Gibson family
- Creating a mall on Sixth Street between Arizona and Sixth avenues. Façade restoration.
- Armory Park Community Garden: $50,000
- City of Tucson
- Garden at senior citizen center.
- Musicland/Chicago Store: $40,000
- Phil Levkowitz
- Façade and tile work on one of Tucson's oldest continually operating businesses.
OLD MONEY
Tear the Roof off the Sucker- CO Brown House: $20,000
- El Centro Cultural del las Americas
- Emergency repairs to 1850 building.
- Tophoy Building: $18,500
- Elaine Paul
- Restoration including glass, wood sills and window frames, awnings on 1926 building at 210-224 N. Fourth Ave.
- Stone Avenue shops: $15,500
- Façade renovation to 1930s and 1940s style.
- Stillwell House: $15,500
- Restoration work including painting, gates, signs, lampposts at 1901 home, 134 S. Fifth Ave., that is now a meeting and event venue.
- Jacome Home: $15,000
- Restoration of late 1800s façade, including uncovering "A" Mountain rock foundation at 217 N. Stone Ave.
- Stone Avenue Temple: $12,000
- Repair and restoration of deteriorated original exterior features and façade at the first Jewish house of worship in Arizona, 564 S. Stone Ave.
- North Court Avenue: $7,000
- PFA LLC
- Restoration of façade of 1870 building, 317 N. Court Ave., and 100 feet of brick and concrete sidewalk.
- El Charro Café: $4,000
- Flores family
- Handmade signs and up to six lampposts for 1896 building, 311 N. Court Ave.
MO' MONEY
Diversity Training- Tapestry of Tucson Project: $50,000
- Expansion of displays, exhibits and murals at Convention Center of various Tucson cultures.
- North Fourth Avenue façade: $31,000
- From Ninth Street to University. Boulevard
- Franklin Street-Court Avenue: $30,000
- City improvements to intersection to spur housing and other development on vacant property.
- Hotel Congress: $25,300
- Richard Oseran
- Exterior improvements including trash enclosure, upgrades to wrought iron fencing around patio.
- Arizona Avenue: $25,000
- Pedestrian streetscape at 186 E. Broadway Blvd. with a neon-like archway and the promise of some shade.
- Congress-Broadway pedestrian overpass: $20,000
- New banner brackets for signs on the walkway.
GADGETRY
Festive!- Holiday Lighting: $50,000
- 1940s-'50s style lights and decorations on Stone between Alameda Avenue and Broadway Boulevard.
- Demolition study at Tucson Children's Museum: $15,500
- Before a wall can be taken down at the old Carnegie Library, lots of study must occur, according to the city, on "security, lighting, landscape, shade development and pigeon control."
- Tree lighting: $12,000
- Lights for nearly 70 trees on Congress Street between Fourth and Church Avenues.
- Flower pots: $10,000
- For the plaza at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library and select intersections.
- Patio Furniture: $10,000
- For the city's public housing high rise, Tucson House, 1501 N. Oracle Road, along with sidewalk improvements.
- Banners: $7,500
- For downtown special events.
- Electric car: $7,000
- A Global Electric Motorcar for the Purple-People of the Downtown Alliance.
- Sound Equipment: $5,000
- Portable sound system for bands, speakers and amplification of recorded music.
- Landscape at Tucson Museum of Art: $4,850
- Security lights in downtown alleys: $4,400
SLOW MONEY
Marquee de Sade- Rialto: $61,000
- The Congress Street stepchild to the gilded Fox finally gets clearance this month to cash the $61,000 Back to Basics check the city awarded the concert venue nearly three years ago.
