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The state Economic Development Grant Committee narrowed the list of projects it
could fund from 191 to 62.
Charleston's request for $12 million for a new minor league baseball park made the
cut, in addition to Kanawha County's request for $13.4 million for a racetrack at
Quincy.
Braxton's proposed race track also made the cut for $13 million. The committee
will decide which racetrack to fund.
Last Thursday, a lawyer for opponents of Skidmore's track at Flatwoods, asked the
West Virginia Economic Development Grant Committee how a property they sold for
$3.3 million four years ago is now valued at $10.5 million.
John Hussell, a lawyer for Don and Rebbecca Woodward and heirs raised objections
to the Flatwoods project over the Fisher family cemetery.
The Wheeling area is in the running, $49 million for Cabela's and the development
around it, $15 million for renovation of the former Stone & Thomas building in
downtown Wheeling and the purchase of the Capitol Music Hall, and $2.5 million to
renovate Oglebay Lodge and add 58 rooms.
Here is a list of projects that made the cut. They will be further narrowed this
Wednesday.
Barbour: Belington Industrial Park, $650,000.
Berkeley: Roundhouse, $6.8 million; airport terminal, $1.3 million; regional business
park, $5.4 million.
Braxton: auto racetrack, $13 million.
Cabell: Marshall University biotechnology center, $13.5 million; Sogefi, $990,000;
Pullman Square, $11.2 million; food processing facility, $576,900.
Fayette: industrial site, $2 million.
Greenbrier: Theater, $1.7 million.
Hampshire: Wellness center, $5.4 million.
Hardy: Child care center, $500,000; county land purchase, $1 million; Moorefield
wastewater treatment plant, $5 million.
Harrison: Charles Pointe, $11.5 million; downtown Clarksburg projects, $10
million.
Jackson: Silverton wastewater project, $500,000.
Jefferson: New high school, $6 million.
Kanawha: Clay Center, $8 million; biotechnology incubator, $1.5 million; baseball
park, $12 million; BIDCO projects, $758,000; auto racetrack at Quincy, $13.4
million.
Lewis: Stonewall Resort, $5.4 million; fire academy at Jackson's Mill, $2 million.
Lincoln: High school expansion, $1.5 million.
Logan: Man hospital, $1 million; Chief Logan lodge, $10 million.
Marion: Fairmont parking garage, $3.8 million; high-tech park, $19 million.
Marshall: Grand Vue Park, $4.7 million.
Mason: Point Pleasant Riverfront Park, $1.2 million.
McDowell: Jail, $10.5 million.
Mercer: Concord College technology center, $2 million; baseball park upgrades,
$250,000.
Mineral: Airport water system, $2 million.
Mingo: Expand wood products park, $3.5 million; Belo industrial park, $2.8
million.
Monongalia: Blanchette Rockefeller medical research facility, $10 million; public
theater and marina, $26.8 million; The Square at Falling Run, $10 million; Chaplin
Hill, $1.3 million; West Virginia University research park, $10 million; biometric
security project, $2.5 million.
Ohio: Downtown Wheeling projects, $15 million; Cabela's and surrounding business
park, $49 million; Oglebay lodge upgrades, $2.5 million.
Putnam: Advantage Valley business park, $3.2 million; Fraziers Bottom business
park, $1.6 million; West Virginia Steel building, $300,000; rail spur for Green Metals,
$100,000.
Raleigh: X-Quad Commerce Center, $7 million; Mountain State University parking
garage, $4.9 million; airport industrial park expansion, $14.7 million.
Randolph: Elkins railroad bridge, $2 million.
Summers: Hydroelectric generator at Bluestone Dam, $2.5 million.
Tucker: Various projects, $6.2 million.
Webster: Woodchopper's Village, $2.6 million.
Wood: Parkersburg riverfront park, $5 million; center for recycling of electronics,
$7.1 million.
Wyoming: Expand Twin Falls State Park lodge, $4.8 million.
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