Economic Development
In Mount Rainier, tax hike for apartments, tax cut for everyone else
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Mount Rainier City Council has raised taxes on apartments while cutting taxes for single-family home, commercial and industrial property owners.
Economic Development
Restoring Kaywood Theater: Mount Rainier’s moonshot
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If Mount Rainier residents want to remake the Kaywood Theater into a new performing and cinematic arts hub for Prince George’s County, they’ll need to find between $15 million and $33 million to do so.
County Council
Mystery survey asks Prince Georgians about Alsobrooks, legalizing marijuana, taxes, Redskins relocation
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The poll focused particularly on recently-sworn in County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, asking respondents to rate their perceptions of Alsobrooks across a series of questions. So, did Alsobrooks’ office commission the poll? Good question.
Economic Development
Required Reading: More shutdown woes; MoCo’s economy slows; Lessons from St. Jerome go national
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We take another trip on the shutdown misery express courtesy of WAMU, Washington Business Journal reports on Montgomery County’s changing economic fortunes, and a profile of a former St. Jerome educator now making waves in the national Catholic education scene. All this, and more news and views for Prince George’s County residents in our Jan. 23, 2019 edition of Required Reading! Shut Down The Shutdown: Black Federal Workers In Prince George’s County Speak Out – WAMU
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Berwyn Heights
With Beltway Plaza redevelopment in play, a new vision for Greenbelt Road emerges
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As long-term plans to redevelop Beltway Plaza gain inertia, economic development and planning officials are developing planning and policy strategies to reshape Greenbelt Road to be a more pedestrian, cyclist and transit-friendly corridor. Guiding those actions for now is a report compiled over the summer by the Urban Land Institute, released October 2018.
“The Greenbelt Road corridor is at a crossroads. Like many suburban commercial areas, it has lost some business to newer, outlying shopping centers and grapples with some disinvestment and traffic congestion,” reads the report. “Many community members express a desire for a greater variety of retail, but there is no singular vision for how the area can attract that.” The full report can be read here.
Development
Mount Rainier hires new econdev chief
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Mount Rainier has found a new director of economic development in one Ronald Hopkins, city officials announced Wednesday afternoon. His first day will be Dec. 3, 2018. Hopkins succeeds former economic development director Samantha Olatunji, who resigned suddenly in early October 2018. The hiring was announced Nov.