DOING BUSINESS IN BEAVER FALLS
Beaver Falls is a city on the move! With our recent Federal Opportunity Zone designation, there are even more benefits to investing in Beaver Falls as a new or existing business. Give us a call to get the process started!
Getting Started
Commercial Occupancy
Property Sale
Commercial Occupancy
New Business
Mobile Food Vendor
Ordinance
Dye Test for
Property Sale
UCC Building Permit
Application
PA Prep
This site will lead you in the right direction with starting a business in Pennsylvania.
Beaver County Facade Improvement Program
The facade improvement program enables building or business owners to renovate their storefronts and receive reimbursement up to $20,000 per address or mini-grants for facade renovations of up to $2,000 are available for smaller projects such as signs, awnings, painting, etc. according to the guidelines within the program. For more information contact Suzanne Modrak at the Community Development of Beaver County.
http://www.beavercountypa.gov/Depts/CommDev/Pages/default.aspx
America’s SBDC
America’s SBDC represents America’s nationwide network of Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) – the most comprehensive small business assistance network in the United States and its territories.
U.S. Small Business Administration
The U.S. Small Business Administration has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses.
Federal Qualified Opportunity Zones
The federal tax bill passed at the end of December 2017 enables the governor to designate certain census tracts as Opportunity Zones. Investments made by individuals through special funds in these zones would be allowed to defer or eliminate federal taxes on capital gains. The governor was given the opportunity to designate up to 25 percent of census tracts that either have poverty rates of at least 20 percent or median family incomes of no more than 80 percent of statewide or metropolitan area family income. There are two designated FQOZ census tracts in Beaver Falls.
https://dced.pa.gov/programs-funding/federal-funding-opportunities/qualified-opportunity-zones/
https://opportunityzones.hud.gov/entrepreneurs
HUBZone Program
The Historically Underutilized Busines Zone (HUBZone) program helps small businesses in urban and rural communities gain preferential access to federal procurement opportunities.
https://www.sba.gov/contracting/government-contracting-programs/hubzone-program
SCORE Pittsburgh: Counselors to Small Businesses
Paramount Pursuits
Paramount Pursuits is a Beaver County business incubator located in Ambridge, PA and provides the City with main street consulting services.
Business District Authority
Public Meetings
The Beaver Falls Business District Authority hosts it public meetings at 6pm on the third Tuesday of every other month at City Hall. Business and community members are encourage to come and hear updates from the BFBDA. To speak at a meeting regarding a business district topic please email BFBDAinfo@gmail.com one week prior to the meeting to be added to the agenda.
2021 Public Meeting Schedule:
January 19, 2021
March 16, 2021
May 18, 2021
July 20, 2021
September 21, 2021
November 16. 2021