Governor O’Malley announced the following Neighborhood Conservation Initiative awards on March 19, 2009. The Neighborhood Conservation Initiative (NCI) is designed to assist communities that have been impacted by foreclosure and sub-prime lending.
Please call the local contact for more information about specific target areas.
EASTERN SHORE REGION
Queen Anne’s County Awardee: Queen Anne’s County Housing Authority Amount: $350,000.00
Project: Acquisition, rehabilitation and resale of units for affordable homeownership Contact: James Lomax, Jr. 410-758-3977 mlomax@qac.org
Wicomico County Awardee: Wicomico County Amount: $407,928.00
Project: Down payment, closing cost and rehabilitation grants to assist home buyers
Contact: Lori A. B. Carter 410-548-4860 lcarter@wicomicocounty.org
Editors Note: While some may be concerned that this money was targeted towards "The Bricks" project in Salisbury, "The Bricks" was REJECTED by the Governor. In fact, the money mentioned above is targeted towards 1st time home buyers interested in homes that have been foreclosed on. The target area in the County is 21801 & 21804, east side and some parts of the west side.
You can contact Salisbury Neighborhood Housing if you're interested in some of these funds.
The Contractors that have bids in to do work on "The Bricks" have been contacted and told the Governor has in fact rejected any special funding towards that project. The City is going back to the drawing board on that project.
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5 comments:
Good work, Joe.
I sincerely hope that she has to account for the huge mistake of taking over this property. There was no good reason that the city took this property, except for her ego. Which isn't a good reason at all.
If the next Mayor would assign the disposition of The Bricks to Gary to resolve, we can all at least have a good laugh over it.
"The Bricks" was REJECTED by the Governor.
That was the best thing this Governor has ever done.
The city owns this building and neow they need to make it office space for some of the overcrowded departments in the city. It would be a good idea to make that a public works department or something of the like.
How much will it cost to bring it up to code? Maybe the best thing to do is just demolish it.
Now selling the "Bricks" for surplus I'd say start the bidding now!
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