Eligible applicants 

• Small businesses with 1 to 19 full-time employees and an ABN
• Not-for-profit organisations or charities that lease a commercial shopfront.
• Strata bodies and property owners that lease a commercial shopfront to the aforementioned applicants.

Ineligible applicants

• Franchise businesses.
• Businesses located outside of the City of Vincent.

Eligible enhancements

• Facade enhancements including external architectural and/or artistic facade features
• Installing street furniture, affixed eating area furniture, parklets and eatlets (as per Vibrant Public Spaces Policy) or bring-in bring-out alfresco dining (as per the Outdoor Eating Area Permit).
• Upgrading entrances and doors for universal access.
• Integrated public art including murals, sculptures, installations and bespoke street furniture.
• Window decals and front window displays including vacant shopfront windows.
• Enhancement or activation of an underused space and/or adaptive reuse of a space.
• Opening up a tenancy with servery windows.
• Improvements to frontages to interact with the street such as bifold doors or windows.
• Removal of redundant signage, air conditioning units, hoardings, window coverings, roller shutters and screening.
• Creative signage not specifically referring to the business and/or any products they sell.
• Creative lighting or projections on facades, awnings and footpaths.
• New lighting on the façade and public spaces.

Ineligible enhancements

• Enhancements cannot predominantly involve business signage or logo and/or specific product advertising.
• Enhancements that are predominantly maintenance of existing elements of your shopfront.
• Enhancement that have already commenced or been installed.
• Projects that are already funded or supported by the City of Vincent.