“We now have accomplished rigorous testing and the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant software portal will reopen on April 24,” the SBA  introduced on Twitter at 9 p.m. EST on Thursday. “We are going to present up to date paperwork and steering tomorrow. candidates ought to register for an account prematurely.”

The hyperlink to the portal is svograntportal.sba.gov.

For the reason that Shuttered Venue Operators Grant was handed in late December, the SBA has been tasked with creating this system and processes from scratch. Andrea Roebker, a regional communications director on the SBA, instructed Billboard in March that whereas the SBA was in a position to distribute Paycheck Safety Program loans quickly after the CARES Act handed in March 2020, these have been dealt with by delegated bankers, and the venue grants program is a “totally different animal,” noting that that is the primary time the division has created a grant course of centered on for-profit entities.

Whereas the information is probably going a aid for struggling venue house owners who’ve waited practically 4 months for entry to $15 billion in federal funding, the truth that the SBA was relaunching the applying course of on a Saturday didn’t go over nicely on Twitter.