WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) announced today $56,292,302 in direct federal funding for local projects across Baltimore City and Baltimore County, Howard and Carroll County within the six-bill package of fiscal year 2024 funding bills passed by the Senate late last week. These funds, included at the senators’ request, support projects encompassing a wide array of local and regional priorities, ranging from public safety to infrastructure improvements to community development. Overall, the senators included over $160 million in federal dollars directly for Maryland within the legislation. President Biden signed the measure into law this weekend, averting a partial government shutdown.
A full list of the funds included by Senator Cardin in this fiscal year 2024 appropriations legislation is here. A full list of the funds included by Senator Van Hollen in the legislation is here.
“The bipartisan passage of these six spending bills provides continued investment in Maryland that will help fund locally driven priorities and opportunities throughout Baltimore City and the Baltimore region. This congressionally directed funding supports the completion of critical infrastructure, public safety, health care and other projects that strengthen Maryland’s communities and growing economy,” said Senator Cardin. “Team Maryland is united in our ongoing effort to respond directly to needs of Marylanders and is committed to bringing new federal resources to our state.”
“Delivering these direct investments to our communities is a key way we’re working to expand opportunity and shared prosperity across our state. These resources will help strengthen the Baltimore Region by supporting public safety, enhancing water quality, improving our transportation and water infrastructure, and so much more. We’re excited to see our local partners put these funds to work to benefit our communities,” said Senator Van Hollen.
The funding announced by the senators includes:
- $10.6 million for public safety, including to strengthen cybersecurity, emergency services, violence intervention programs, injury prevention, and support for victims of sex trafficking.
- $17.8 million for community development, historical, and cultural initiatives, including renovation of blighted properties, reconnecting communities, historic renovations and increased crisis and long-term affordable housing for veterans and others.
- $16.9 million for infrastructure, including deepening of the Seagirt-Dundalk access channel, improving the effectiveness of the Patapsco Headworks, connecting communities with bike and pedestrian trails, and increasing mobility for individuals with disabilities.
- $9.2 million for education, research and workforce, invest in cutting-edge STEM research, and create economic mobility through career training in high-demand fields.
- $1.6 million for the environment, including for preserving greenspace to protect the Chesapeake Bay.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Project Name: After Shooting Protocol Response Project
Applicant: Roca Baltimore
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $1,455,000
Description: Demonstration project would create a data-driven approach to reduce shootings and young people as they work to create long-term behavior change, combining best practices from Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programs and long-term community work.
Project Name: Penetrating Injury Recovery Project
Applicant: University of Maryland Medical Center – Shock Trauma Center
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $1,275,000
Description: Trauma Outpatient Center will provide comprehensive and holistic post-discharge care and resources for patients who have experienced injuries caused by violence.
Project Name: Safe House for Child Survivors of Sex Trafficking in Maryland
Applicant: TurnAround, Inc.
Project Location: Baltimore County
Amount Awarded: $1,150,000
Description: Funds will be used to hire staff, purchase equipment, and begin operations at Maryland’s first safe house for child survivors of human trafficking. The Safe House will provide a 24-hour call center, on-site case manager, overnight beds, counseling, and education programs.
Project Name: School-Based Violence Prevention
Applicant: Baltimore City Health Department
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $738,000
Description: School-Based Violence Prevention Program to reduce violence in middle and high schools that are persistently dangerous.
Project Name: Statewide Youth Conflict Coaching
Applicant: Conflict Resolution Center of Baltimore County
Project Location: Baltimore County
Amount Awarded: $291,000
Description: To establish a 2.5 year, on-school-premises pilot program bringing in Youth Conflict Coaches to discuss conflicts with at-risk high schoolers before they develop into violence.
Project Name: Youth Violence Intervention Program
Applicant: MedStar Franklin Square
Project Location: Baltimore County
Amount Awarded: $963,000
Description: Funding will support capacity and program expansion for evidence-based intervention methods which will address behavioral health, substance use, and violence prevention for youth in the areas of Southeast Baltimore County and South Baltimore City.
Project Name: Penn-North Community Violence Prevention After and Out-of-School Youth Center
Applicant: UniFIED Efforts Inc.
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $1,500,000
Description: This project would fund the construction of an out of school and after school facility in Baltimore’s Penn-North neighborhood.
Project Name: New Fire Station and Emergency Shelter in Hampstead
Applicant: Hampstead Volunteer Fire Engine & Hose Company No. 1
Project Location: Carroll County
Amount Awarded: $2,000,000
Description: Funding will support the replacement of the Hampstead Volunteer Fire Company’s current fire station with a new fire station and a separate event center, which will also serve as an emergency shelter.
Project Name: Enhancing Forensic-Based Investigations in our Community
Applicant: Carroll County Sheriff’s Office
Project Location: Carroll County
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Description: This project will fund the design, purchase and implementation of state-of-the art physical and digital forensic lab areas that would provide improved tools, equipment and related technology.
Project Name: Office Modernization & Cybersecurity Enhancements
Applicant: Baltimore City State’s Attorney
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $775,000
Description: This project would upgrade the agency’s IT system.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INITIATIVES
Project Name: Acquisition and Renovation of Blighted Properties in Park Heights
Applicant: Park Heights Renaissance, Inc.
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $1,250,000
Description: To acquire, renovate, and sell eight single-family blighted homes for homeownership in the Park Heights Community of northwest Baltimore City.
Project Name: Baltimore Franklin-Mulberry Corridor – Reconnecting Communities Project
Applicant: MDOT/Baltimore City
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Description: Funding will be used to support the ongoing planning effort for the Franklin-Mulberry Corridor Reconnecting Communities project in West Baltimore.
Project Name: Incentivizing Accessibility in Housing Rehabilitation and Development Projects
Recipient Name: State of Maryland
Project Location: Statewide
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Project Description: Funds will be used to renovate and develop housing units with Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards and Assistive Technology features to support people with disabilities and older adults.
Project Name: Project Liberty Ship for Restoration of the S.S. John W. Brown
Applicant: Project Liberty Ship, the S.S. John W. Brown
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $200,000
Description: The proposed project will remove corrosion and paint from a historic ship currently operating as a museum honoring the Merchant Marine, Naval Armed Guard and shipbuilders whose efforts contributed to victory in World War II.
Project Name: Ranleagh Court Redevelopment
Applicant: Enterprise Community Development, Inc.
Project Location: Howard County
Amount Requested: $850,000
Description: Funds will be used to preserve and expand affordable housing opportunities by replacing an aging community development with a higher-density, modern, mixed-income, multifamily community development.
Project Name: Upton Planning Committee for Renovations of the Parren Mitchell Event and Cultural Center
Applicant: Upton Planning Committee
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Description: The Parren Mitchell House project will restore the family home of Congressman Parren Mitchell.
Project Name: Pikesville Armory Redevelopment
Applicant: Pikesville Armory Foundation
Project Location: Baltimore County
Amount Awarded: $850,000
Description: Funding will be used for the stabilization and redevelopment of historic buildings that make up the Pikesville Armory.
Project Name: Community Family Life Center and Food Pantry
Applicant: BRIDGES Community Development Corporation
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $990,000
Description: Funds will support construction of a facility in the Pimlico/Arlington/Hilltop neighborhood with a commercial kitchen and food pantry, afterschool tutoring, and job training to serve local families.
Project Name: Orchard Street Church Restoration
Applicant: Greater Baltimore Urban League
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $3,500,000
Description: Funds will be used to restore the Historic Orchard Street Church, the city’s oldest standing structure, as a headquarters and outreach center for the Greater Baltimore Urban League. It will also house a new community clinic in collaboration with Morgan State University’s new medical school.
Project Name: Rehabilitation of Fulton Avenue Homes (City of Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland)
Applicant: Unity Properties, Inc.
Project Location:
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Description: This project will completely rehabilitate 20 historic, single-family row homes on S. Fulton Avenue in Baltimore. The properties will be sold to homeowners at 60% to 80% of AMI, creating opportunities for families to build generational wealth while stabilizing two currently blighted, vacant blocks.
Project Name: Residential Setting/Supportive Housing Initiative
Applicant: Baltimore County Government
Project Location: Baltimore County
Amount Awarded: $750,000
Description: This project would help Baltimore County increase the number of crisis beds and supplemental housing resources available.
Project Name: Belvedere Place Affordable Rental Housing Development (City of Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland)
Applicant: BRIDGES Community Development Corporation
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Description: Funds will be used to develop 83 new, family-serving affordable apartments in the Park Heights neighborhood. The apartments will be part of a development on a vacant property across from the Pimlico Race Course that will include a community park, retail space, and supportive services for residents.
Project Name: Roland Park Community Center HVAC
Applicant: Roland Park Community Center
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $47,350
Description: Roland Park Community Center offers a wide variety of community services including employment services, addiction counseling, low-cost preschool, free teen summer camp, and fitness for older adults. Funds will be used to update the HVAC system.
Project Name: Rosedale Veterans Housing Initiative
Applicant: Sheppard Pratt Health System, Inc.
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $850,000
Description: Funds will support construction of affordable housing units for veterans and their families adjacent to a Health, Recovery, and Veterans Center, a one-stop shop for veterans in Baltimore County’s Rosedale. Residents will have access to employment training, health care, and legal assistance.
Project Name: York Road Community Hub Renovation
Applicant: Loyola University Maryland
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $1,000,000
Description: Loyola’s facility on York Road is a collaborative community space that hosts the Govans Farmers Market and houses York Road Initiative staff and campus security. Funds will be used to renovate the facility, relocate its public safety office, and expand space for workforce development activities.
Project Name: Crown Cork & Seal Blight Remediation (City of Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland)
Applicant: Southeast Community Development Corporation
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Description: The Crown Cork & Seal campus is one of the largest remaining undeveloped industrial sites in the city. It is approximately 30% occupied by artists and makers in affordable studio space. Funds will be used to demolish unsafe structures and stabilize buildings to improve safety for tenants.
Project Name: Historic Druid Hill Y Family Center Renovation
Applicant: Young Men’s Christian Association Of Central Maryland, Inc.
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $1,238,000
Description: The Y in Druid Hill, built in 1916, provides critical services to the community. Funds will be used to replace the roof, renovate transitional housing and locker rooms, and upgrade the pool area, while protecting the historic structure and ensuring the sustainability of a key community resource.
Project Name: NAACP Baltimore Headquarters
Applicant: Baltimore NAACP
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Description: Funds will be used to upgrade and expand the Baltimore NAACP headquarters so it can increase its services, including fresh produce distribution, free and reduced-cost office space for small women- and minority-owned businesses, and youth programs.
Project Name: LIGHT Rock Children’s Village Construction Project
Applicant: LIGHT Health and Wellness Comprehensive Services Inc.
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $850,000
Description: Funds will expand and improve the LIGHT Rock Child Care Center to upgrade existing classrooms and develop unfinished space for additional classes, an indoor play area, and community meeting spaces. The renovation will allow for increased enrollment and service to West Baltimore residents.
Project Name: Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County – North Carroll Expansion
Applicant: Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County, Inc.
Project Location: Carroll County
Amount Awarded: $1,432,673
Description: This project would fund the renovation of a space in the old North Carroll High School to serve as a Boys & Girls Club headquarters, including community and classroom space.
Project Name: Preservation Maryland for Historic Ellicott City Jail Rehabilitation and Reuse
Applicant: Preservation Maryland
Project Location: Howard County
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Description: Preservation Maryland is pursuing the adaptive reuse of the historic Ellicott City Jail.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Project Name: Baltimore Harbor and Channels – Seagirt Loop Deepening
Applicant: Army Corps of Engineers
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $2,031,000
Description: Funding will support preconstruction activities for widening and deepening of the Seagirt-Dundalk access channel to expand the Port of Baltimore’s capacity to serve large vessels safely and efficiently.
Project Name: Baltimore City for the Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant Headworks Improvements
Applicant: Baltimore City Department of Public Works
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $4,000,000
Description: The Baltimore City Patapsco Headworks project will improve the effectiveness of the facility service area by removing grit, rags, large, suspended material, fats, oils, and grease in the influent wastewater.
Project Name: Ellicott City North Tunnel (ECNT)
Applicant: Howard County
Project Location: Howard County
Amount Requested: $850,000
Description: Downtown Ellicott City, a Maryland Heritage Area and small business center, has experienced severe flooding from storms in recent years. Funds will support construction of a flood-mitigating tunnel and related water diversion to reduce stormwater runoff to Lower Main Street and the West End.
Project Name: Patapsco Pedestrian/Bicycle Bridge – Phase 1
Applicant: MDOT
Project Location: Baltimore City and Baltimore County
Amount Awarded: $5,000,000
Description: Funds will be used to construct a bicycle and pedestrian bridge connecting the Patapsco Avenue Light Rail Station and Bus Hub with the north side of Patapsco Avenue, improving connectivity to the Cherry Hill neighborhood for residents and commuters.
Project Name: Road to Freedom Trail
Applicant: Northeast Towson Improvement Association
Project Location: Baltimore County
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Description: Funding will support planning, design, and engineering for the Road to Freedom Trail, a cycling and pedestrian trail connecting 13 sites of historical significance.
Project Name: Last Mile Park
Applicant: American Communities Trust, Inc.
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $904,000
Description: Funds will support the development of a park looping around a series of Amtrak overpasses that will provide a safe and inviting connection between the new Eager Park development near Johns Hopkins and the underserved community north of the tracks, bringing economic benefit to both communities.
Project Name: Leveraging Neighborhood Mobility
Applicant: Baltimore City
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $500,000
Description: The lack of accessible sidewalks and curb ramps in the city present major obstacles for individuals with disabilities and mobility challenges. Funds will upgrade pedestrian pathways in targeted corridors to improve mobility and increase safety for residents.
Project Name: Howard County for Hauled Grease Acceptance Facility
Applicant: Howard County
Project Location: Howard County
Amount Awarded: $1,440,000
Description: Funds will support a project to construct a dedicated Hauled Grease Receiving Facility that will separate hauled grease from other waste streams treated at the Little Patuxent Wastewater Reclamation Plant (LPWRP).
Project Name: Route 29 Bus Stations for Extending Flash Service Between Columbia & Burtonsville
Applicant: Howard County Office of Transportation
Project Location: Howard County
Amount Awarded: $750,000
Description: Funding will support the construction bus stations serving an extension of the FLASH bus rapid transit system.
Project Name: Dobbin Road Shared Use Pathway
Applicant: Howard County Office of Transportation
Project Location: Howard County
Amount Awarded: $1,000,000
Description: Funding will support construction of a segment of a shared use path to improve safety and connectivity.
EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND WORKFORCE
Project Name: Equipment for the Center for Education and Research in Microelectronics
Applicant: Morgan State University
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $963,000
Description: The center will produce a complementary curriculum in chip design and fabrication technology using the educational cleanroom to be developed in this project.
Project Name: UMBC Quantum Science Institute
Applicant: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Project Location: Baltimore County
Amount Awarded: $1,500,000
Description: Support to seed a new UMBC Quantum Science Institute that will leverage the reputations of the University’s existing internationally recognized quantum faculty to grow the overall quantum science research enterprise at UMBC and help train the next generation of quantum-ready students.
Project Name: Center for Nanotechnology
Applicant: The Center for Nanotechnology (Coppin State University)
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $2,175,000
Description: Funding will expand the Center for Nanotechnology at Coppin State to grow their research into renewable and clean energy. Nanomaterials can help improve the efficiency of renewable energy systems. The Center also hosts high school students to engage in research and promote STEM careers.
Project Name: Capital Improvements to Civic Works’ Center for Sustainable Careers Workforce Training Facility (City of Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland)
Applicant: Civic Works, Inc.
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $1,000,000
Description: The Center for Sustainable Careers trains city residents for trades in the green construction industry, graduating 200 residents a year. Funds will be used to renovate a Northeast Baltimore training center and outfit the building as a community Resiliency Hub during power outage emergencies.
Project Name: Bunkhouse Renovations
Applicant: The Pearlstone Center
Project Location: Baltimore County
Amount Awarded: $1,558,000
Description: The Pearlstone Center is an outdoor education center that includes an organic farm and gardens and hosts students and workforce development training for green jobs. Fund will renovate bunkhouses and build a new bathhouse to support an overnight summer camp for low-income children.
Project Name: Open Works Baltimore West Side Expansion
Applicant: Open Works, Inc.
Project Location: Baltimore City
Amount Awarded: $2,000,000
Description: Funds will be used to open an Open Works makerspace in West Baltimore that will provide high-tech tools, industrial co-working space, technical education programs for all ages, workforce development training, entrepreneurship support, and contract manufacturing for startups and community projects.
ENVIRONMENT
Project Name: C.P. Crane Plant Property
Applicant: Baltimore County Government
Project Location: Baltimore County
Amount Awarded: $1,666,279
Description: Funds will support the county’s acquisition of 153 acres of land at the site of the former CP Power Plant in Bowley’s Quarters. The county will preserve the green space to protect the Chesapeake Bay and provide a waterfront park for the residents of eastern Baltimore County.
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