“There is now enough funding that has been generated so we have the ability to give out these larger grants,” said Aarti Kotak, Emanuel’s deputy chief of staff for neighborhood development. “The first round of grants was $3 million, and to do large grants at that point would have gutted it for just two or three things instead of the 30 businesses we gave money to. So, we’ve gotten to a point of scale with enough funding from the real estate downtown to be able to push these larger grants out to the neighborhoods that need it.”