We talk a lot about Main street, but sometimes it's very difficult, especially in a city government that was coming out of COVID to have resources to do that. So what did we do with ARPA dollars? The first, because you mentioned, Jorge, was We took $3 million in ARPA funds to really partner with CDFI Friendly America to create CDFI Fort Worth. And it's been immensely successful. That $3 million investment has created over almost $11 million in investment in local community across Fort Worth. Almost half of it, by the way, in small business support. (00:26–00:34)
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