No ground has been broken on the amenities of Frederick’s long-anticipated Westside Regional Park, yet city taxpayers are already on the hook for millions of dollars and could end up dedicating roughly $40,000 more before dirt begins to move.
After officials spent millions in Frederick city taxpayer dollars nearly a decade ago to acquire the land, the future Westside Regional Park is finally seeing some real progress.
Young sisters Sophie and Madigan Lillard will never get the chance to play on a destination playground set for construction in their honor inside the city’s future Westside Regional Park.
A destination playground dedicated to the memory of sisters Sophie and Madigan Lillard is moving closer to becoming a reality at the future Westside Regional Park at Hargett Farm.
When a devastating house fire near Myersville killed sisters Sophie and Madigan Lillard nearly five years ago, their family members developed a plan to honor their memory through the construction of a destination playground.
The latest proposal for 60 acres of the vacant Hargett Farm property is a fully managed and leased 95,000-square-foot swim and sports center and 10-field artificial turf complex.
A newer, bigger and potentially more aesthetic water storage tank is set to join the recreational facilities and accompanying infrastructure planned for the future Westside Regional Park at Hargett Farm.
In response to the Aug. 23 letter to the editor by Jennifer Brannan, let me make it clear that I care deeply about the quality of life for residents of all areas of the city of Frederick. Ms. Brannan mistook my reference to the Hargett Farm as “out there” as devaluing the interests of reside…
The first major step toward implementing the proper infrastructure to support the long-awaited Westside Regional Park passed Thursday with flying colors and little to no discussion.
Properly developing Frederick’s Westside Regional Park could help make the city a regional destination for sports tourism, Maryland Sports Commission executive director Terry Hasseltine explained this week to a group gathered to help plan the park’s future.
Frederick’s Westside Regional Park is inching closer to reality, with a second task force meeting out of the way and $2 million for construction set for approval Thursday in the city’s fiscal 2018 budget.
From athletic fields to an aquatic center, many options are on the table for the future Westside Regional Park, set on 136 acres of the old Hargett Farm on Butterfly Lane in Frederick.
The largest contribution the city of Frederick has made to the construction of the Westside Regional Park is in Mayor Randy McClement’s proposed fiscal 2018 budget. The budget proposal also includes larger merit pay raises for civilian employees and an increase in water and sewer rates for t…
No ground has been broken on the amenities of Frederick’s long-anticipated Westside Regional Park, yet city taxpayers are already on the hook for millions of dollars and could end up dedicating roughly $40,000 more before dirt begins to move.
After officials spent millions in Frederick city taxpayer dollars nearly a decade ago to acquire the land, the future Westside Regional Park is finally seeing some real progress.
Young sisters Sophie and Madigan Lillard will never get the chance to play on a destination playground set for construction in their honor inside the city’s future Westside Regional Park.
A destination playground dedicated to the memory of sisters Sophie and Madigan Lillard is moving closer to becoming a reality at the future Westside Regional Park at Hargett Farm.
When a devastating house fire near Myersville killed sisters Sophie and Madigan Lillard nearly five years ago, their family members developed a plan to honor their memory through the construction of a destination playground.
The latest proposal for 60 acres of the vacant Hargett Farm property is a fully managed and leased 95,000-square-foot swim and sports center and 10-field artificial turf complex.
A newer, bigger and potentially more aesthetic water storage tank is set to join the recreational facilities and accompanying infrastructure planned for the future Westside Regional Park at Hargett Farm.
In response to the Aug. 23 letter to the editor by Jennifer Brannan, let me make it clear that I care deeply about the quality of life for residents of all areas of the city of Frederick. Ms. Brannan mistook my reference to the Hargett Farm as “out there” as devaluing the interests of reside…
The first major step toward implementing the proper infrastructure to support the long-awaited Westside Regional Park passed Thursday with flying colors and little to no discussion.
Properly developing Frederick’s Westside Regional Park could help make the city a regional destination for sports tourism, Maryland Sports Commission executive director Terry Hasseltine explained this week to a group gathered to help plan the park’s future.
Frederick’s Westside Regional Park is inching closer to reality, with a second task force meeting out of the way and $2 million for construction set for approval Thursday in the city’s fiscal 2018 budget.
From athletic fields to an aquatic center, many options are on the table for the future Westside Regional Park, set on 136 acres of the old Hargett Farm on Butterfly Lane in Frederick.
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The city of Frederick finally has a plan in place to develop a park at Hargett Farm.
A simplified version of the multimillion-dollar Westside Regional Park plan is set to come back to the Frederick Boar…
Progress toward building a regional park on vacant farmland in west Frederick has again been halted amid questions an…
At $98.5 million, plans to build a regional park on Hargett Farm could be the most expensive city undertaking since t…
From a water park to a 4,000-seat stadium, swimming pools and 11 multi-use fields, the initial master plans for a reg…
An aquatic center, regional tournament-worthy soccer fields, a merry-go-round and cross-country skiing trails were am…
The city may soon have a new funding source to pay down its debt service on Hargett Farm — the money paid by develope…
After six years plagued by uncertainty and false starts, the city of Frederick’s vision for a regional park at Harget…
A large stone wall, the remnants of a bank barn, immediately caught Grace Fielder’s eye as she walked through Hargett…
City officials may have uncovered a way to pay down the more than $700,000 in debt owed each year for the still-undev…
City notes: While the city has been talking about a regional park at Hargett Farm since it bought the land in 2009, they've never really studied if it was feasible. Now's the time.
Around 50 area residents, Frederick County Public Schools staff and county PTA members convened Tuesday at Orchard Gr…
Hargett Farm may eventually become the regional park that Frederick's elected officials want it to be, but they aren'…
After moving her organization from downtown Frederick to the city's west side about a year ago, Elizabeth Chung said …
City of Frederick staff are seeking funds to relocate the eastern end of Butterfly Lane in 2016.
Everybody in Frederick loves pools, but nobody has a plan to keep competition swimming in the county afloat.
There’s potential progress on a few projects of note in the city of Frederick.
As city officials prepare to transform the old Hargett Farm on Butterfly Lane into Westside Regional Park, they’re se…
Frederick residents have three upcoming opportunities to learn about the city's plan for Hargett Farm and give their …
Mayor Randy McClement stressed the city’s recent economic developments Monday evening, using Carroll Creek as the bac…
Building an aquatic center would be $20 million.
Ideas for how to address the county’s lack of indoor swimming pools are surfacing after years of discussion.
City of Frederick officials are once again talking about what should become of Hargett Farm.
After giving a portion of Hargett Farm to Frederick County Public Schools a year ago, the city of Frederick is now wo…
Christopher Sulca didn’t know potatoes grew in the ground until the 10-year-old Frederick resident began a seven-week…
