Analysis: Sailing Hall of Fame to come before Board of Public Works again

A controversial proposal to lease about 5,000 square feet of state-owned property to the National Sailing Hall of Fame is expected before the Board of Public Works Wednesday.

The Department of Natural Resources would lease the land that it owns at City Dock in downtown Annapolis for up to 70 years under the proposed agreement, which was delayed when it came before the board three weeks ago.

The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in a Board of Public Works document, but the land deal will only be about a quarter of the total land in the deal.

Earl Kelly of The (Annapolis) Capital has reported that the final project would be around 20,000 square feet, but the project remains controversial. Some residents are vehemently opposing the proposal, which includes a land swap that would see the state take over another property and remove it from the tax rolls.

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Len Lazarick was the founding editor and publisher of MarylandReporter.com and is currently the president of its nonprofit corporation and chairman of its board He was formerly the State House bureau chief of the daily Baltimore Examiner from its start in April 2006 to its demise in February 2009. He was a copy editor on the national desk of the Washington Post for eight years before that, and has spent decades covering Maryland politics and government.