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Maryland’s Arts and Entertainment Districts Merge Commerce and Culture and Strengthens Downtown Elkton . .  . “Mary Jo Jablonski, Director of the Elkton Alliance, describes what an Arts and Entertainment District has meant to her rural community. She states, “In 2003 there were 33 vacant spaces in downtown. Now there are zero.” Cambridge has also seen a dramatic surge in property values as a result of its district. According to Kyra Kristof Pincheira, the Arts and Entertainment District Coordinator at the Cambridge Main Street, “Interest in the availability of space has outstripped supply. . . . “

Audit Faults Agency for Building Indoor Recreation Facilities, Washington Post, April 8, 2008

Audit Faults Maryland DNR’s Spending — The Gazette, April 8, 2008

Program Open Space Under Fire,  – ABC Channel 2 Baltimore, August 7, 2008

Indoor Projects Raise Questions – Baltimore Sun, Aug. 8, 2008

Elkton is Maryland’s Next Hot Spot - Daily Record, August 26, 2006

Flush Fund Enables Building . . . Associated Press, September 11, 2006

GAO Report Cites Risk in Brac Move .  . . Baltimore Sun, August 26, 2008

Documents

This section contains documents designed to aid insight to the discussion concerning the sale of Marylalnd Public Open Space aquired property at Elk Landing.

SAGE Group, Aberdeen Proving Ground BRAC Impact on Seven Jurisidictions

Audit Report, Department of Natural Resources, August 2008 by Office of Legislative Audits