Originally Posted by
cyclotoine
Use the grant to buy tools, get the bicycles through donation..
actually, contact park tool directly once things start to move along to see if they wouldn't donate or at least sell at special discount directly to you a full professional mechanics suite of tools. In a shop like that tools are consumable! You'll need a good set to start but will have to start replacing here and there after a year or two.
+1! I agree - use some (if not all) the money to buy tools and set up a shop, and see if you can't get them at a discount/prorated discount, then just wait for the bikes to start arriving.
Tools are very expensive.