If you’re an artist or small business owner who’s always wanted to operate a brick and mortar storefront — but just couldn’t afford it — the city of Kansas City, Missouri, may have a World Cup opportunity for you:

The city is willing to foot some, and even up to $25,000 a year, of one’s rent to fill up empty, underutilized storefronts.

On Tuesday, knowing that the arrival of the World Cup and its hundreds of thousands of fans in KC is just one year off, the City Council’s Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee passed a resolution to put $1.4 million toward a Small Business Storefront Vacancy Revitalization program.

Paying leases to fill empty storefronts

The goals of the program, which is proposed to be open to applicants from across the United States, are two-fold:

First, to

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