Public Information - Press Release: A Lot of Cars Auto Sales joins Façade Improvement Program

For Immediate Release:

March 14, 2016

A Lot of Cars Auto Sales joins

Façade Improvement Program

Business receives $1,815 check

NEPTUNE CITY, NJ –A Lot of Cars Auto Sales has joined the growing list of Monmouth County businesses that have benefitted from the Grow Monmouth Façade Improvement Program. Freeholder Thomas A. Arnone (fifth from left) is joined by Neptune City Councilman Joseph Zajack (third from left) to present Ivan Ferro (fourth from left), owner of A Lot of Cars Auto Sales, with a Façade Improvement Program grant check for $1,815 on March 4, 2016 in Neptune City, NJ.

Freeholder Thomas A. Arnone (fifth from left) is joined by Neptune City Councilman Joseph Zajack (third from left) to present Ivan Ferro (fourth from left), owner of A Lot of Cars Auto Sales, with a Façade Improvement Program grant check for $1,815 on March 4, 2016 in Neptune City, NJ.

“A Lot of Cars Auto Sales received a reimbursement check for $1,815 for exterior paint on their building at 58 West Sylvania Ave.,” said Freeholder Director Thomas A. Arnone. “Every Façade Improvement Program check helps make a needed improvement to a local business.”

Owner Ivan Ferro accepted the reimbursement check from Arnone on Friday, March 4.

The Façade Improvement Program is part of the successful Grow Monmouth initiative that is utilizing HUD Community Development Block Grant funds to help improve the look of privately held commercial buildings located in HUD eligible areas of Monmouth County. No County funds are being used for the program.

HUD eligible areas include all or part of 24 of the County’s municipalities. Eligible municipalities are: Aberdeen, Atlantic Highlands, Belmar, Bradley Beach, Deal, Eatontown, Farmingdale, Freehold Borough, Freehold Township, Hazlet, Highlands, Howell, Keansburg, Keyport, Lake Como, Manalapan, Matawan, Neptune City, Neptune Twp., Ocean Twp., Red Bank, Shrewsbury Twp., Union Beach and West Long Branch.

Asbury Park, Long Branch and Middletown businesses are not eligible for this program because those municipalities receive designated HUD Community Development Block Grants directly.

To date, Monmouth County’s Façade Improvement Program has dispersed more than $90,000 to 52 local businesses.

For more information about the Grow Monmouth Façade Improvement Program contact the Division of Economic Development at 732-431-7470 or visit the Grow Monmouth section of the County website at www.visitmonmouth.com.

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