{"id":10463,"date":"2020-03-30T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2020-03-30T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T19:52:07","slug":"usda-rural-development-low-interest-rates-for-infrastructure-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2020\/03\/30\/usda-rural-development-low-interest-rates-for-infrastructure-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA Rural Development – Low Interest Rates for Infrastructure Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Rural Development will be offering historically low interest rates for infrastructure projects starting in April.\u00a0 This includes everything from water and sewer projects to emergency vehicles and critical infrastructure like municipal halls and fire stations.<\/p>\n

Visit their website at www.rd.usda.gov\/mi<\/a> to find out about all the ways they can help rural communities or contact their offices:<\/p>\n

USDA RD State Office – East Lansing<\/strong>
\n517-324-5190\u00a0\u00a0| Fax 855-813-7741<\/p>\n

Gladstone Area Office<\/strong>
\n906-428-1060 Ext. 4<\/p>\n

Sault Ste. Marie Office<\/strong>
\n906-632-9611 Ext. 4<\/p>\n

Traverse City Area Office
\n<\/strong>231-941-0951 Ext. 4<\/p>\n

West Branch Office<\/strong>
\n989-345-5470 Ext. 4<\/p>\n

Caro Area Office<\/strong>
\n989-673-8173 Ext. 4<\/p>\n

Grand Rapids Area Office<\/strong>
\n616-942-4111 Ext. 6<\/p>\n

Mason Area Office<\/strong>
\n517-676-4644 Ext. 4<\/p>\n

Paw Paw Office<\/strong>
\n269-657-7055 Ext. 4<\/p>\n

Flint Office<\/strong>
\n810-230-8766 Ext. 4<\/p>\n

Jennifer Rigterink\u00a0is a legislative associate for the League handling economic development, land use and municipal services issues. \u00a0She can be reached at jrigterink@mml.org or 517-908-0305.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nUSDA Rural Development - 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