Metro’s Business Interruption Fund was started to assist small businesses that may be impacted by construction of Metro’s Crenshaw/LAX line, the Little Tokyo area along the Regional Connector and Phase I of the Purple Line Extension.

More than $1 million in grants have been awarded since the first checks were distributed to qualifying merchants in April. The fund…

Metro and Pacific Coast Regional Small Business Development Corporation will be hosting a second series of pilot Business Interruption Fund (BIF) workshops for three Metro Rail construction projects areas during September, October and November in the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project, the Purple Line Extension Phase 1 and the Little Tokyo area of the Regional Connector

Workshop participants will learn about the BIF and receive information first-hand from program staff about how small "mom and…

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) Business Interruption Fund (BIF) pilot project has exceeded the $1 million mark in the award of 62 grants to “mom & pop” businesses directly impacted by construction of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project. BIF began operations this past February.

“Local businesses are the lifeline of a…

Here’s the latest roundup of construction along the Crenshaw/LAX Line alignment. The light rail line will run between the intersection of Exposition and Crenshaw boulevards to a junction with the Green Line just south of Los Angeles International Airport. The project is funded by Measure R and is forecast to be complete in 2019.

The ongoing work by Walsh/Shea…