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Hotel boondoggle boosters have won another round in the battle for state funding in the last minute crush of bills at the end of the General Assembly session  in Annapolis. They managed to keep grants of $1 million and $4 … Continue reading →

Pete Plamondon Jr announced today his company is exercising its option to withdraw from its partnership with the City to build a downtown hotel and conference center in Frederick. He said that City officials had “gone the extra mile” in … Continue reading →

Dear State Senator/Delegate:  Please delete the $1 million and $4 million grants for the Frederick downtown hotel in HB 1347 (pages 8 and 12.) see  https://legiscan.com/MD/text/HB1347/2019 The State of Maryland should not disgrace itself with support for this project. It … Continue reading →

Hotel boondoggle supporters in the General Assembly have managed to sneak $5 million into HB1347, a small bill which is separate from the main budget bill. NOTE: This is a correction. Yesterday we reported a provision early in the bill for … Continue reading →

COPY OF COVER NOTE: Supporters of the City-sponsored Downtown Frederick Hotel project sought another $10.5 million in the 2019 legislative session in Annapolis and were apparently unsuccessful in getting new State aid this year. But they have declared their intention … Continue reading →

Mayor Michael O’Connor is tiring of the City’s repeated panhandling in Annapolis on behalf of the downtown hotel boondoggle. A Frederick News-Post (FNP) report this morning (link at the bottom) quotes the Mayor as saying: “This is the last session … Continue reading →

The City-sponsored hotel downtown missed out on funding in the short 2019 legislative session when the budget for the following fiscal year is hashed out. Reported here February 27 (see link at end) and on the FoFC Downtown Marriott Watch … Continue reading →

The Downtown Hotel project looks most unlikely to get any state funding this legislative session in Annapolis. Both the Hogan administration and State legislative leaders said the project needed the full support of the Frederick County delegation before they would … Continue reading →

Delegate Krimm: Richard Griffin wrote a misleading answer to your request for details of the terms under which the hotel operator will be leasing the podium roof of the parking structure (email January 16, 2019 17:06 EST). He encouraged you … Continue reading →

A $250,000 grant the State awarded to the City of Frederick for its Downtown Hotel back in 2012 was forgotten and never drawn on by City officials. Kimberly Langkam director of Capital Grants at the state’s Department of General Services … Continue reading →