After a pandemic-induced pause, Frederick County and city officials met Tuesday to resume discussion about plans to build a hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick.
After a pandemic-induced pause, Frederick County and city officials met Tuesday to resume discussion about plans to build a hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick.
The city of Frederick is faced with three less-than-ideal choices as it considers whether to extend for a fourth time an agreement with the developer of the long-planned and long-delayed hotel and conference center for downtown Frederick.
As the global pandemic continues to take a toll on the hospitality industry, the Frederick aldermen will have to decide whether to extend an agreement with the developer of a hotel and conference center slated for downtown Frederick.
The proposed hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick projects to create $1.5 billion in new spending in Frederick County over the course of 25 years, according to a new study released Thursday.
Jack Lynch makes a quasi-compelling case in his June 8 letter to the editor, “Downtown hotel should require state historic approval.” However, he leaves out several important things that make his argument misleading.
When the Maryland legislative committees were presented with local bills to fund the Frederick downtown hotel project excluding further Maryland Historical Trust review, red flags should have arisen throughout the state to stop such an end run around the normal historical review process.
Frederick’s Republican delegation to the Maryland General Assembly got an earful of criticism this week from an unusual source — the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce.
Whether $5 million promised to the city of Frederick for a downtown hotel and conference center has a chance of being spent this year, depends on whether you’re talking to an optimist or a pessimist.
ANNAPOLIS — The House of Delegates approved a state budget on Thursday that would pave the way for half a billion dollars in spending on school construction and provide pay raises to state employees.
Why is it such a struggle to get state funds allocated to the proposed hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick, a project that is widely accepted as being vital to the economic health of our city? We are getting tired of repeating this.
ANNAPOLIS — Frederick County and its municipalities stand to benefit from Gov. Larry Hogan’s 2020 budget, which was introduced to the General Assembly on Friday. One closely watched project, however, remains unfunded.
With a clear separation along party lines, members of Frederick County’s delegation have disagreed for years over using state money for a planned multimillion-dollar hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick.
The long-awaited downtown hotel and conference center — the most important economic development project in the county in decades — seems to be back on track.
After a pandemic-induced pause, Frederick County and city officials met Tuesday to resume discussion about plans to build a hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick.
The city of Frederick is faced with three less-than-ideal choices as it considers whether to extend for a fourth time an agreement with the developer of the long-planned and long-delayed hotel and conference center for downtown Frederick.
As the global pandemic continues to take a toll on the hospitality industry, the Frederick aldermen will have to decide whether to extend an agreement with the developer of a hotel and conference center slated for downtown Frederick.
The proposed hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick projects to create $1.5 billion in new spending in Frederick County over the course of 25 years, according to a new study released Thursday.
Jack Lynch makes a quasi-compelling case in his June 8 letter to the editor, “Downtown hotel should require state historic approval.” However, he leaves out several important things that make his argument misleading.
When the Maryland legislative committees were presented with local bills to fund the Frederick downtown hotel project excluding further Maryland Historical Trust review, red flags should have arisen throughout the state to stop such an end run around the normal historical review process.
Frederick’s Republican delegation to the Maryland General Assembly got an earful of criticism this week from an unusual source — the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce.
Whether $5 million promised to the city of Frederick for a downtown hotel and conference center has a chance of being spent this year, depends on whether you’re talking to an optimist or a pessimist.
ANNAPOLIS — The House of Delegates approved a state budget on Thursday that would pave the way for half a billion dollars in spending on school construction and provide pay raises to state employees.
Why is it such a struggle to get state funds allocated to the proposed hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick, a project that is widely accepted as being vital to the economic health of our city? We are getting tired of repeating this.
ANNAPOLIS — Frederick County and its municipalities stand to benefit from Gov. Larry Hogan’s 2020 budget, which was introduced to the General Assembly on Friday. One closely watched project, however, remains unfunded.
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Historic Preservation Commission Chairman Dan Lawton hopes members will be ready to vote after one more workshop on w…
A chunk of state grant funding originally slated for Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center is goi…
Developers and architects working on Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center promised this week tha…
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It’s almost time for Mayor Randy McClement’s annual State of the City address.
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A pair of state grant applications for the proposed downtown hotel and conference center moved forward Thursday with …
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The developers of Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center took the next step Thursday toward bringi…
News that the latest design for the proposed downtown hotel and conference center definitely includes plans to demoli…
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The historic Birely Tannery building downtown — a part of the property slated to be turned into a hotel and conferenc…
ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s Senate passed a capital budget that includes $16 million for the proposed downtown Frederick h…
ANNAPOLIS — Downtown Frederick was the center of attention Thursday as Maryland’s senators debated a $16 million appr…
ANNAPOLIS — It could become more acrimonious in Annapolis soon — at least as far as Frederick County lawmakers are co…
ANNAPOLIS — Is the third time a charm?
The historical uniqueness of Frederick’s Birely Tannery site is slated for incorporation into the latest proposed dow…
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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Larry Hogan’s budget won’t include funding for a downtown Frederick hotel and conference center proj…
The head of a potential partner for a downtown Frederick hotel and conference center said on Tuesday that the project…
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A new agreement with details of the proposed downtown hotel and conference center project cleared the Frederick Count…
The first of five parties on Thursday signed off on a new agreement critical to advancing a proposed downtown hotel a…
Frederick County Executive Jan Gardner’s support of a $2.8 million TIF for the proposed downtown hotel and conference…
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Prior agreements about a proposed downtown hotel and conference center took center stage Tuesday as the Frederick Cou…
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A Frederick County resident is refusing to comply with the demands of a consultant on the downtown hotel project who …
The Frederick County hotel tax was increased from 3 percent to 5 percent on Tuesday, but not before a final round of …
Advocates and opponents of a proposed downtown hotel and conference center got a chance on Wednesday to question hist…
After more than a half-year of debate by county politicians, the County Council plans to vote later this month on whe…
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Overnight visitors in Frederick County could see a slight bump in the cost of their hotel stays soon.
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The city of Frederick has paid more than $75,000 for lobbying efforts on behalf of the downtown hotel and conference …
Partners in Frederick’s downtown hotel and conference center project gathered Wednesday on the proposed site to celeb…
Parties involved in the downtown Frederick hotel and conference center project see funding in the state’s fiscal 2017…
ANNAPOLIS — The state’s fiscal 2017 capital budget — which includes funding for the downtown Frederick hotel and conf…
ANNAPOLIS — Discussion of the proposed downtown Frederick hotel and conference center dominated General Assembly deba…
UPDATE: After about an hour of debate on the topic of the downtown Frederick hotel and conference center on Thursday,…
ANNAPOLIS — For about 24 hours this week, it looked as though $200,000 were heading to Frederick as planning money fo…
ANNAPOLIS — As the General Assembly’s 2016 session winds down, the fate of a bill to secure $19.8 million in state bo…
ANNAPOLIS — When a Maryland Stadium Authority bond bill to help fund a downtown Frederick hotel and conference center…
ANNAPOLIS — The animus related to public funding proposals for a downtown hotel and conference center filled two Gene…
ANNAPOLIS — Frederick County lawmakers will move through the General Assembly session as a delegation divided — at le…
ANNAPOLIS — As the cost and scale of the downtown hotel and conference center project are decreasing, more questions …
ANNAPOLIS — Frederick County state lawmakers plan to meet twice next week to discuss a proposed downtown Frederick ho…
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Plans to build a hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick cleared the first major hurdle Thursday with a vot…
Friends of Frederick County is entering the fray when it comes to commenting on the proposed downtown Frederick hotel…
Friends of Frederick County is entering the fray when it comes to commenting on the proposed downtown Frederick hotel…
The parties connected to a hotel and conference center planned for downtown Frederick have a new strategy for state f…
As the next Maryland General Assembly session in January approaches, the partners planning to build a hotel and confe…
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Plans to build a hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick continue moving forward with the hope that the sta…
Without so much as part of $15 million in requested funding included in the state’s recently approved $40.8 billion b…
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