Maryland awards grants to Lower Shore towns
Gov. Larry Hogan announced the award of more than $11 million to local jurisdictions through three of the state's job creation and neighborhood revitalization programs – Community Legacy, the Strategic Demolition fund and the Baltimore Regional Neighborhoods Initiative.
The Community Legacy program provides local governments and community development organizations with resources for essential projects aimed at strengthening communities through activities such as business retention and attraction, encouraging homeownership and commercial revitalization. Fifty-five projects in 19 counties and Baltimore City received a total of $6 million in Community Legacy grants in fiscal year 2016.
Lower Shore awards include:
Somerset County
- Town of Princess Anne, $50,000, Princess Anne Façade Rehabilitation
Wicomico County
- City of Salisbury, $50,000, Salisbury Neighborhood Intervention Program to purchase dilapidated houses and demolish if rehabilitation is not cost effective
Worcester County
- Town of Berlin, $50,000, Façade Renovation Program
- Ocean City Development Corporation, $50,000, Façade Improvement Program
- Ocean City Development Corporation, $50,000, Green Building Initiatives
- Town of Snow Hill, $125,000, Snow Hill Building Improvement Program
Two Worcester County towns also received funds from the Strategic Demolition fund aimed at providing a catalyst to projects that accelerate economic development and job production in Maryland's sustainable communities.
- Ocean City Development Corporation, $200,000, Demolition of the Royalton Hotel in downtown Ocean City to construct a new mixed-use project.
- Town of Snow Hill, $100,000, Mason's Opera House Engineering Documents