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SWED Shovel Ready Sites
The purpose of the SWED Shovel Ready Site program is to better compete for large scale economic development projects by encouraging shovel-ready sites through upfront and creative financing.
General terms and conditions include:
- Minimum of ten acres or ability to support a minimum of 100,000 sf facility (ideally expandable to 200,000 sf)
- All utilities exist and are at site (electric, natural gas, municipal water/sewer, fiber/internet)
- All utilities have capacity to accommodate a significant new development
- Transportation network exists with capacity to accommodate significant new development
- Zoning is light industrial, heavy industrial, industrial park or planned development district
- Applicant must evidence legal site control for a minimum of three years
- Proposed site improvements must be offered for lease or sale
- Targeted economic sectors include manufacturing, logistics or other industrial
- Targeted minimum number of jobs = 100
- Targeted number of users = 1
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Contact SWED at 410-749-1251 or info@swed.org to further discuss specific projects and opportunities.
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Approximately one hundred members and guests attended SWED's 56th Annual Meeting recently at Green Hill Yacht and Country Club. The meeting featured a year in review by David Ryan and a keynote presentation by Tom Barkin, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. A special thank you to all of our sponsors! First Shore Federal Savings & Loan Wicomico County, Maryland BBSI Piedmont Airlines Delmarva Veteran Builders Trinity Sterile Hebron Savings Bank City of Salisbury, MD Perdue School of Business Pohanka of Salisbury Saltwater Storage GMB Architects & Engineers Maryland Department of Commerce TidalHealth SVN Miller Commercial Real Estate LINKBANK Avery Hall PKS & Company P.A. Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce
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