Hogan Touts Redevelopment Plan For Defunct Maryland Naval Base, Economic Growth

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Gov. Larry Hogan described the redevelopment of a defunct Cecil County naval base as a “game-changing step ahead” for Maryland throughout a ceremony on Thursday.

The Maryland state authorities plans to redevelop the Bainbridge Naval Coaching Heart together with greater than 400 acres alongside the Interstate 95 hall in an effort to carry 1000’s of jobs to part of Maryland that “is house to a serious distribution and logistics market,” Hogan stated in a social media submit.

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Cecil County Government Danielle Hornberger, representatives from MRP Industrial and the Bainbridge Improvement Company, in addition to different state and native elected officers, joined Hogan on the ceremony.

Throughout a short speech on the occasion, Hogan famous that the redevelopment challenge will “might be an amazing asset to assist us proceed to satisfy the necessity for increasingly more corporations who’re searching for to do enterprise within the state of Maryland.”

The redevelopment challenge will assist the state entice extra corporations searching for to do enterprise in Maryland, he added.

“This warehouse area and industrial area alongside I-95 particularly in Cecil County and Harford County continues to be in enormous demand,” he stated.

The one-time coaching heart holds an vital Maryland and U.S. historical past, Hogan stated. 

The previous naval base was a preparatory college for boys earlier than it was bought by President Franklin Roosevelt and refashioned for recruits.

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“Almost 245,000 recruits have been educated right here all through World Struggle II,” Hogan stated. “And the middle was activated once more in 1950 as we entered the Korean battle and its closing deactivation was commemorated right here with a ceremonial flag reducing ceremony in 1976.”

The U.S. Naval Academy formally transferred the property again to the state of Maryland in 2000, Hogan stated.

Twenty years later, in the course of the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the deactivated coaching heart caught fireplace. It took fireplace crews hours to comprise the flames.

The Workplace of the Maryland State Fireplace Marshal later launched an investigation into the fireplace.

The redevelopment ceremony is certainly one of many financial growth bulletins the Hogan administration has made in Cecil County lately. 

In July 2021, Governor Hogan took a helicopter tour of Principio Enterprise Park, which covers greater than 1,600 acres and is at present house to distribution amenities and workplace area for main corporations together with Basic Electrical, Restoration {Hardware}, and Amazon, in accordance with state officers. 

Additionally in July, Nice Wolf Lodge broke floor on its largest resort, which might be positioned in Perryville, and Highline Warren—a producer and distributor of automotive merchandise—opened a state-of-the-art distribution heart in Elkton, state officers stated.

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Just a few months later, in October, Alo Yoga and BELLA+CANVAS—two Los Angeles-based clothes manufacturers—opened a brand new distribution heart in North East, a small city between Baltimore and Philadelphia, in accordance with state officers.