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Downtown Mall Re-Design Still Includes Planned Boutique Hotel

March 18th, 2019 by WCBC Radio

Although the players and scope of the project have changed a few times in the past couple of years- the downtown mall re-design still includes a planned boutique hotel. The former M&T Bank building on the mall has been the location discussed for the hotel.  Back in 2017 those plans included a partnership with Allegany College of Maryland and called for a hotel with 48 rooms and a fitness center.  The Allegany College part of that plan is apparently now off the table, but Paul Kelly, executive director of the Cumberland Economic Development Corporation, reports that some of the proposed parking spaces on the downtown mall will be targeted for use by the hotel…

 

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