Recently the Mayor and Board of Aldermen unanimously approved $5.0 million in capital grants from the State of Maryland for the construction of public infrastructure to support the development of a full-service, 183-room hotel with meeting space and public parking in Downtown Frederick along Carroll Creek Park.   
 
Last Wednesday, the project team presented the plans for the project to the City’s Historic Preservation Commission for initial review.  Read on in our DED blog, to learn what the next steps include for the project.

All meetings and workshops are public and the schedule can be found on the city website.

 Local brewers recently named a beer in honor of State Comptroller Peter Franchot for his support to improve statewide brewery laws.

"The idea for the beer and the connection with the Comptroller came from Brewer Darryl Eisenbarth. The Comptroller has been a staunch supporter of MD beer and this year the MD Craft beer industry took a pretty big hit with some legislation that was bad for our business. Comptroller Franchot stood next to us as we tried to mitigate this bad legislation and has been out spoken in his support of trying to overturn those damaging changes in MD beer law. And because of that, we wanted to honor his on going support by brewing a beer in his honor",  shares Phil Bowers, owner of Brewers Alley.

According to the Brewers Association of Maryland, breweries generate an estimated $925 million economic impact and over 400 jobs for the State of Maryland. Locally, the City of Frederick has five craft breweries and according to John Fieseler, with the Visit Frederick, "We can't stock enough brewery trail brochures to keep up with demand."