Day: April 24, 2013

State loan to pub aimed at neighborhood revitalization

In a somewhat unorthodox designation of state funding last week, the Maryland Board of Public Works granted a $300,000 refinancing loan to a bar-restaurant, The Limerick Pub.

The loan to the Wheaton watering hole is part of the Neighborhood BusinessWorks program, a business development initiative that provides gap financing to small businesses in sustainable communities, as defined by the Sustainable Community Act of 2010.

State Roundup, April 24, 2013

13 female corrections officers indicted along with Baltimore City Detention Center inmates in major, sordid gang bust; state may see more higher education funds from the feds; State Archives found lacking in adequate controls over records, art; gun forums upcoming in Frederick County; elections are a hot topic with what could be a major turnover in the House of Delegates, resulting in political jockeying in Howard amid speculation of Montgomery Exec Ike Leggett’s future; four Israeli tech firms to set up shop in Maryland; and Arundel police chief investigated after claims of retaliation.

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