The Greenwood Preservation Society continues to raise funds locally, state wide and nationally to aid in the renovation of the Grand Princess of the Prairie. The GWPS has been fortunate to obtain funding from a variety of sources. Using a base of cash donated by local residents and interested parties, the GWPS leveraged funds to obtain over $300,000 in Kansas Community Tax Credits through the Kansas Department of Commerce. These funds were used as a matching source to obtain over $1 million from the Kansas Department of Transportation, Transportation Enhancement program.
An additional grant through the Kansas Historical Society was obtained specifically for the basement. The Kansas Humanities Council is supplying funds to create a small museum area that will tout the transportation, cattle and oil industries that have been the economic and social backbone of Greenwood County and the Southern Flint Hills for decades.
Funds continue to be raised that will become an operating endowment fund to ensure there will always be money available to keep the Greenwood Hotel Complex in working order. If you want to know more about our operating endowment go to the Walk of Legends page on this blog. If you want even further information, please contact us at gwhotelmarketing@gmail.com and we will be happy to answer your question.
Additional funding sources will be obtained to finish upper floors of the building when our first phase of restoration is complete. If you would like to contribute to future phases of restoration please contact us today at 620-583-7271 and let us know how you would like to contribute.
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