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 proposed downtown Frederick hotel and conference center has been years in the making, and historically, local senators and delegates have stayed true to party lines when it comes to supporting use of public money for development.
The proposed hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick, a public-private partnership, is projected to bring more than 275 jobs and generate $25.8 million in annual spending. Although a private developer would be responsible for the hotel itself, the city and county would take the lea…
The slow pace of the development of the city’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center has resulted in the loss of another state grant.
Soon after he first assumed office as mayor at the beginning of 2010, Randy McClement committed the city to sponsorship of a downtown hotel. It was to be a $45 million, three- or four-year project — due to open by the end of his first term or early 2014. Four years later, it is still a three…
A game-changer for the city, an economic driver and a PR nightmare summed up Frederick Alderman Derek Shackelford’s comments about the proposed downtown hotel project before a unanimous vote Thursday on the latest agreement with developers.
Anyone who wants to weigh in on the details of an agreement between the city and developers Plamondon Hospitality Partners regarding Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center can do so Thursday before members of the Board of Aldermen vote on it.
Conflict and criticism of the downtown hotel and conference center project has spread to the 2018 election campaign, including among the three Democratic candidates vying to represent District 3A in the Maryland House of Delegates.
A familiar duel between people for and against Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center played out over several hours Wednesday at a public workshop on some of the latest project plans.
Plans for Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center now call for less parking, more rooms and a potential reduction in some public infrastructure improvements.
Now that the city budget is approved, officials are jumping right back into business with a workshop on an updated memorandum of agreement with the developers of the proposed downtown hotel and conference center.
In a recent letter to the editor by Peter Samuel titled “Alderman O’Connor dropped the ball in 2013 at crucial moment in hotel project,” Samuel claimed that the mayor and Board of Aldermen, including O’Connor, operated in secrecy making “decision(s) ... behind closed doors” and this casts a …
Peter Samuel, a longtime opponent of the proposed downtown Frederick hotel and conference center, has struck again with an allegation that city staff members and elected officials violated Maryland’s Open Meetings Act when they settled the terms of the request for proposals for the project i…
ANNAPOLIS — Last-minute changes to the state’s capital budget restored funding for the proposed downtown Frederick hotel and conference center, but at lower levels than previously expected.
City resident Andy Stout raised some questions recently with Frederick Mayor Michael O’Connor and the Board of Aldermen regarding the land slated for construction of the proposed downtown hotel and conference center. This week, after a second email prompting a response, he received some answers.
In what Public Information Coordinator Patti Mullins called the most successful mayoral question-and-answer session she has seen in her tenure with the city, Frederick Mayor Michael O’Connor got up close and personal Friday morning with a cross section of his constituents.
For nearly six years, Earl Robbins Jr. headed a group of advocates working toward the goal of bringing a hotel and conference center to downtown Frederick.
Members of the Historic Preservation Commission want to make sure a revolving fund that would help rehabilitate historic city properties is a possibility, even if the money does not come from taxes generated from the proposed downtown hotel and conference center.
Marrying flexibility and history, a final design for the former Frederick Railroad building on East Patrick Street is approved and ready for implementation as part of the proposed downtown hotel and conference center.
Members of the city’s Board of Aldermen could vote in a month on inking an agreement for preserving the history of the proposed downtown hotel and conference center site.
The mayor and Board of Aldermen are set to weigh in Wednesday on a document detailing efforts to preserve the history of the downtown site slated for a multimillion-dollar hotel and conference center.
Future patrons of the proposed downtown hotel and conference center will have the chance to learn all about the lucrative tanning business that operated at the Carroll Creek site in the 19th and 20th centuries.
An early draft of a plan to help owners of historic properties in Frederick reap benefits from the proposed downtown hotel and conference center is floating around as part of an effort to offset the loss of the state’s last standing tannery building.
The state’s Open Meetings Compliance Board issued an opinion stating that Frederick’s Downtown Hotel Advisory Committee did not violate Maryland’s Open Meetings Act by operating behind closed doors and without notice to the public.
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 proposed downtown Frederick hotel and conference center has been years in the making, and historically, local senators and delegates have stayed true to party lines when it comes to supporting use of public money for development.
The proposed hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick, a public-private partnership, is projected to bring more than 275 jobs and generate $25.8 million in annual spending. Although a private developer would be responsible for the hotel itself, the city and county would take the lea…
The slow pace of the development of the city’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center has resulted in the loss of another state grant.
Soon after he first assumed office as mayor at the beginning of 2010, Randy McClement committed the city to sponsorship of a downtown hotel. It was to be a $45 million, three- or four-year project — due to open by the end of his first term or early 2014. Four years later, it is still a three…
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Whether $5 million promised to the city of Frederick for a downtown hotel and conference center has a chance of being…
ANNAPOLIS — The House of Delegates approved a state budget on Thursday that would pave the way for half a billion dol…
Plans for Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center now call for less parking, more rooms and a poten…
The days of Frederick’s former Birely Tannery building are officially numbered after a Historic Preservation Commissi…
As members of the Frederick Historic Preservation Commission dig into the details of preserving the historic elements…
A building in the middle of the proposed downtown hotel and conference center is a contributing resource to the Frede…
ANNAPOLIS — Downtown Frederick was the center of attention Thursday as Maryland’s senators debated a $16 million appr…
ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Larry Hogan’s budget won’t include funding for a downtown Frederick hotel and conference center proj…
As the Maryland General Assembly 2017 session approaches, and supporters of a downtown Frederick hotel and conference…
Prior agreements about a proposed downtown hotel and conference center took center stage Tuesday as the Frederick Cou…
A state agency, not a private development company, would own the conference center portion of the proposed downtown h…
Like many major construction and development projects, plans for a downtown hotel and conference center in Frederick …
If there is one thing clear about the the proposed downtown Frederick hotel project — confusion has reigned about the…
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 — A bill that would cap the county’s hotel tax at 3 percent has passed the Frederick County delegation and …
The hotel and conference center project planned for downtown Frederick has had no shortage of critics as the proposal…
Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center will have fewer rooms, more parking spaces and a new plan f…
A new agreement with details of the proposed downtown hotel and conference center project cleared the Frederick Count…
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…
ANNAPOLIS — Frederick County and its municipalities stand to benefit from Gov. Larry Hogan’s 2020 budget, which was i…
ANNAPOLIS — Last-minute changes to the state’s capital budget restored funding for the proposed downtown Frederick ho…
An early draft of a plan to help owners of historic properties in Frederick reap benefits from the proposed downtown …
City staff members are recommending that the Birely Tannery building be demolished to make way for Frederick’s propos…
A chunk of state grant funding originally slated for Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center is goi…
The head of a potential partner for a downtown Frederick hotel and conference center said on Tuesday that the project…
Frederick County Executive Jan Gardner’s support of a $2.8 million TIF for the proposed downtown hotel and conference…
The only building left from early 19th-century tanning operations in the city of Frederick may be demolished to build…
ANNAPOLIS — The state’s fiscal 2017 capital budget — which includes funding for the downtown Frederick hotel and conf…
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…
The parties behind Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center are forging ahead with research and appl…
Even after years of planning, the financing for the hotel and conference center planned for downtown Frederick is spu…
Plans to build a hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick cleared the first major hurdle Thursday with a vot…
The parties connected to a hotel and conference center planned for downtown Frederick have a new strategy for state f…
ANNAPOLIS — Is the third time a charm?
The first of five parties on Thursday signed off on a new agreement critical to advancing a proposed downtown hotel a…
With a clear separation along party lines, members of Frederick County’s delegation have disagreed for years over usi…
The proposed downtown Frederick hotel and conference center has been years in the making, and historically, local sen…
A game-changer for the city, an economic driver and a PR nightmare summed up Frederick Alderman Derek Shackelford’s c…
Conflict and criticism of the downtown hotel and conference center project has spread to the 2018 election campaign, …
The developers of Frederick’s proposed downtown hotel and conference center took the next step Thursday toward bringi…
ANNAPOLIS — It could become more acrimonious in Annapolis soon — at least as far as Frederick County lawmakers are co…
The historical uniqueness of Frederick’s Birely Tannery site is slated for incorporation into the latest proposed dow…
An Annapolis-based consultant hired to work on the proposed downtown Frederick hotel and conference center has filed …
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After more than a half-year of debate by county politicians, the County Council plans to vote later this month on whe…
The head of a potential partner for a downtown Frederick hotel and conference center said on Tuesday that the project…
As the Maryland General Assembly 2017 session approaches, and supporters of a downtown Frederick hotel and conference…
The Maryland Stadium Authority — long planned to be the conduit for bond funding for a planned hotel and conference c…
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…
The question of risk to city and county taxpayers under proposed financing plans for a downtown hotel and conference …
Prior agreements about a proposed downtown hotel and conference center took center stage Tuesday as the Frederick Cou…
A state agency, not a private development company, would own the conference center portion of the proposed downtown h…
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…
“And with a 20-stroke lead, Frederick City Mayor Randy McClement sinks his last shot for a record 100 under par, clin…
The only building left from early 19th-century tanning operations in the city of Frederick may be demolished to build…
Congratulations to Frederick Mayor Randy McClement.
Like many major construction and development projects, plans for a downtown hotel and conference center in Frederick …
Overnight visitors in Frederick County could see a slight bump in the cost of their hotel stays soon.
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