Contracting with Commerce

Opportunity Zones (OZs) are federally designated tracts meant to spur investment in undercapitalized communities. A revised program is being rolled out, and applications are now being accepted to designate new opportunity zones in 99 census tracts across Washington.

Commerce is requesting applications for grants to qualified lending institutions to provide Washington state businesses in historically underserved communities with access to credit.

The Washington State Department of Commerce, hereafter called "COMMERCE,” is initiating this Request for Applications (RFA) to solicit proposals from those qualified and interested in grant funding for projects that demonstrated high-wage, clean job creation in Washington, provide risk reduction for investments in public and private infrastructure in order to increase a community’s capacity for clean manufacturing, or provide investments in workforce development to attract and train the workforce required to grow the clean energy economy.