Boston Launches $6 Million Grant Fund to Help Small Businesses Reopen Safely

Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip6283 · Meeting of July 22, 2026

Boston launches a $6 million safety grant program for small businesses as Boston Hope Medical Center stops accepting patients. The city announced the new grant fund, open to brick-and-mortar businesses with fewer than 15 employees, will cover costs including PPE purchases, safety partitions, and outdoor space management, with first-round applications opening May 28 at boston.gov/reopen-fund. The city said $4 million of a previously allocated $7.5 million relief fund had already reached more than 1,100 businesses, 95 percent of which have 15 or fewer employees.

Boston Hope, the emergency COVID-19 care facility built in under a week inside the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, stopped accepting new patients, with 36 still in residence and over 700 treated since April; the site will remain intact as a backup resource. The city recorded 12,521 total coronavirus cases and 622 deaths as of the briefing, and separately condemned weekend vandalism at the Puerto Rican Veterans Memorial in the South End, the first memorial of its kind in the nation.

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Source: the Uncategorized 2026-07-22 clip6283 meeting of July 22, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.