FLIP program helps Edinburg businesses make upgrades [Video]

Small businesses in Edinburg will be getting big improvements soon as they receive money to upgrade their store’s to enhance the city’s overall appeal.

Beverly’s Hardware is going on its 77th year of being in business.

In 2010, Joe Lopez bought the shop, and he says while the shop has changed ownership throughout the years, the building has remained the same and is long overdue for improvements.

“There’s a lot of big competition, a lot of big franchises around here,” Lopez said.

That’s why the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation, or the EDC, launched FLIP, the Facade and Lot Improvement Program.

“It is a way for us to help small businesses who have been going through a lot of hard times over the last few years during the pandemic and through high inflation rates and everything like that, to kind of bounce back and give them an opportunity to dress up …