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College Park approves developer tax cut waiver for ‘ineligible’ projects
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College Park City Council appears set to grant a student-housing development a tax cut the project was once ineligible for.
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Downtown College Park retail could become 175-unit mid-rise apartment building
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A prime downtown College Park block could transform from a single-story strip of retail to a mid-rise multi-story mixed-use apartment complex, but only if the developer’s rezoning dreams come true. The developer in question is Richard Greenberg’s Greenhill Companies, whose subsidiaries Terrapin Main Street LLC and Carrol Investors have assembled a block of adjoining properties on the southeastern corner of Baltimore Avenue and Hartwick Road. Under Greenberg’s conceptual plans, the 17,000 square-foot site would be redeveloped with 13,000 feet of ground floor retail topped with 150 to 160 apartments. Greenberg has asked Prince George’s County planning authorities to rezone the entire site to mixed-use-infill. In order to obtain a rezoning, he has to get a conceptual site plan approved.
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College Park sets public hearing to address developer tax cut mistake
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College Park City Council scheduled a public hearing on proposed revisions to laws governing the city’s Revitalization Tax Credit program. Under the proposed changes, previously ineligible projects that were granted a tax credit in error would be given a waiver to re-apply for the tax credit.
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College Park Council split on tax cut rule changes for student-housing developer
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College Park City Council is divided over whether or not to make-good on a tax cut erroneously granted to a developer last year.
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After mistakenly granting developer tax cut, College Park weighs retroactive rule change
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More than a year ago, College Park City Council unanimously approved a special tax cut for a student housing development. But there was one problem: the project was never eligible the tax cut.
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College Park sets rules for racial justice steering committee
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College Park city officials are preparing to grapple with its history with systemic racism.
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Rhode Island Ave. bike lane plans criticized for slimmed-down design
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College Park officials have scaled back plans for a renovated Rhode Island Avenue bicycle lane in the city’s northern neighborhoods, drawing criticism from some local cycling advocates.
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College Park Woods Community Center approved
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Plans for a new city-owned community center in the College Park Woods neighborhood were unanimously approved by the Prince George’s County Planning Board during its Jan. 28, 2021 meeting.
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For hire: City manager willing to live in College Park…maybe
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College Park officials have released an extensive “help-wanted” ad of-sorts, issuing a six-page brochure detailing exactly what it wants out of its next city manager.
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Planned Beltsville Treasury facility raises environmental concerns
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Concerns about polluted creeks, increased car traffic, and loss of wildlife habitat dominated a public hearing on a Treasury Department proposal to build a 1 million square-foot cash factory on the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.
“This project is sited in the wrong place,” said Greenbelt City Councilor Rodney Roberts during the meeting. “It should not be on BARC at all.”
The virtual hearing was hosted Dec. 2, 2020, by representatives from the Department of Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the government office in charge of the production of U.S. coins and cash. The public meeting is part off a mandatory environmental review process for new federal facilities. More specifically, the meeting sough comment on a draft environmental impact report prepared for the project.
The Proposal
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing wants to build a 1 million square foot cash production facility at a 104-acre tract of land along Poultry Road between Odell Road to the north and Powder Mill Road to the south.