{"id":78833,"date":"2017-09-27T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=78833"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T18:06:21","slug":"l-a-county-offers-loans-to-clean-tech-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/09\/27\/l-a-county-offers-loans-to-clean-tech-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. County offers loans to &#8216;clean tech&#8217; businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Los Angeles County officials reached out Tuesday to &#8220;clean tech&#8221; companies with an offer of low-interest loans of $25,000 to $1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The county&#8217;s SMART Funding program, run by the Community Development Commission, offers loans to small- and medium-sized businesses. CDC Executive Director Sean Rogan said the group was targeting &#8220;clean tech&#8221; businesses to grow green jobs countywide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Development and innovation in clean technology is important to our community&#8217;s future,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;SMART Funding will provide the tools these businesses need to succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Funds may be used to <a href=\"https:\/\/offices.co\/usa\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquire office space<\/a>, make capital improvements, bring on new employees and buy new machinery and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The SMART loan program also targets manufacturing businesses, medical and health professionals, and development projects near public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Business owners interested in more information can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacdc.org\/economicdevelopment\/smart-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.lacdc.org\/economicdevelopment\/smart-funding<\/a>, email economic.development@lacdc.org or call (626) 586-1856.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Los Angeles County officials reached out Tuesday to &#8220;clean tech&#8221; companies with an offer of low-interest loans of $25,000 to $1.5 million. The county&#8217;s SMART Funding program, run by the Community Development Commission, offers loans to small- and medium-sized businesses. CDC Executive Director Sean Rogan said the group was targeting &#8220;clean tech&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}