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CEDC Responds to Business Owner on Grants

March 11th, 2022 by WCBC Radio

While grants continue to be awarded for downtown Cumberland –  one city restaurant owner is not happy that many of those dollars are specifically targeted for Baltimore Street businesses and properties- and not the entire district. The Cumberland Economic Development Corporation’s “Baltimore Street Comprehensive Investment Program” currently sits at $950,000. During Thursday’s monthly meeting of  the Downtown Development Commission, Dan Bowser, owner of Mezzos on South Centre Street asked why some of those funds couldn’t go to businesses other than those located on the downtown mall…

CEDC executive director Matt Miller noted that it’s not unusual for grants to come with any number of strings attached and restrictions. He said his initial efforts did broaden the scope of the grant, but not to the extent of moving beyond the primary district boundaries…