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ECONOMIC PROJECT LIST NARROWED TO 62 - Skidmore's Flatwood Track Opposed At Last Minute |
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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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