Summary
Grant program (HB22-1409) supporting mixed-use creative projects in Colorado creative districts, historic districts, neighborhood commercial centers, and main streets. ~$98 million awarded across 59 projects. PREDECESSOR to CO-CRTC (the tax-credit successor program established by HB24-1295). Both programs may co-exist for a period as carryover obligations are paid out, but the active program for new applications is CO-CRTC.
Benefit
- Percentage
- —
- Flat
- —
- Duration
- —
- Max annual
- $98,000,000 (taxpayer)
- Max total
- — (taxpayer)
- Carryforward
- —
Program metadata
- Distribution
- allocated
- Claimant subject
- business
- Refund/transfer election
- none
- Program family
- —
- Effective
- —
- Sunset
- 2024-12-31
- Application deadline
- —
- Transfer discount
- —
Hard requirements (1)
- local_approval_requiredOEDIT (or relevant division — Advanced Industries Accelerator, Colorado Creative Industries, Cannabis Business Office, COFTM, Talent Innovation, Office of Just Transition) must approve the grant award. Application via the OEDIT online portal.
Preference / tiering rules (0)
None.
NAICS industries (0)
Any.
Geo zones (1)
- statewide — · Colorado Statewide
Tags (0)
None.
Source
HB22-1409
Last verified: 2026-04-30
CO-statewide. is_active=FALSE — superseded by CO-CRTC. Kept in catalog for historical retroactive reporting and to make the program-history queryable.