Two area communities are among nine The Enhance Iowa Board recently approved more than two-and-a-half million dollars in grants

Iowa Economic Development Authority spokesperson, Jessica O’Riley, says one of the  Community Attraction and Tourism (CAT) grants is going to rebuild the Legion in Radcliffe.

The grant is for around 56-thousand dollars for a project that totals a little more than 415-thousand.

The  Brooklyn Opera House was awarded a 500-thousand dollar grant toward a two-point-eight million dollar project to rehabilitate the Opera House and for the construction of a connecting atrium to adjoin the opera house to the neighboring community center.