330/Maryland Manual

The Authority is developing a 398-acre site at
the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and Maryland
Route 175 in Howard County near Jessup for the
establishment of the Maryland Food Center Au-
thority. Having a majority of all of the different
types of food operations in one location will en-
able the Center to provide better quality food
products to Maryland consumers more efficiently
and at less cost. As of June 30, 1980, approxi-
mately 1,840,000 square feet of food warehousing
space has been completed or is under construc-
tion within the Food Center at an estimated cost
of $59 million. Furthermore, the Authority has
signed commitments for construction of an addi-
tional 288,000 square feet of food warehousing
space. Of 330 saleable acres, approximately 182
acres had been sold or leased as of June 30, 1980.
It is estimated that by the completion of the proj-
ect approximately $100 million will have been in-
vested in food distribution facilities.

Senate Bill 777, enacted by the 1979 General
Assembly, gives the Authority the explicit right
to construct a Fisherman's Warf type develop-
ment in Baltimore's Inner Harbor area. The Fish-
erman's Wharf project will be developed in con-
junction with the City of Baltimore and will have
as its focal point a new wholesale seafood market.
Agreements to lease and deposits of $1,000 per
unit have been obtained for each of the forty-four
units to be constructed. Senate Bill 777 also in-
creased the Authority's Revenue Bond authoriza-
tion from $6 million to $25 million and changed
the name of the Authority to the Maryland Food
Center Authority.

Of the $25 million Revenue Bond authoriza-
tion, $4 had been privately sold as of June 30,
1980. The Equitable Trust Company purchased
$3 million, which was used to partially finance
construction of the existing Produce Market and
the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market Expan-
sion. The revenue bonds sold are structured in
such a manner as not to be a direct encumbrance
on Authority revenues.

During Fiscal Year 1981 the Authority will be-
gin grading operations in the Phase III area of
the project, which is the only remaining un-
developed portion. In January 1976 the Maryland
Wholesale Produce Market began operations.
This facility is fully leased and has twenty-four
produce merchant tenants who were formerly in
the Baltimore metropolitan area. A twenty-nine
unit expansion area is scheduled for completion
during Fiscal Year 1981, which will add 95,000
square feet of useable food wholesaling space to
the facility and bring the total area for the mar-
ket to 333,300 square feet. All of the new

GOVERNMENT HOUSE TRUST

Chairperson: Bryden B. Hyde
Vice-Chairperson: Arnold Rothschild

Mrs. Howard Baetjer II, Harry D. Berry, Jr.,
Hammond J. Dugan III, M.D., Mrs. Gerson
G. Eisenberg, William V. Elder III, Mrs. Mac
K. Griswold, Eugenia C. Holland, R. McGill
Mackall, J. Jefferson Miller II, Elisabeth C. G.
Packard, Richard H. Randall, Jr.

Maryland Historical Society
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Government House Trust was established by
Chapter 267, Acts of 1980, to supervise and di-
rect the renovation, design, and furnishing of the
state rooms of Government House, the official
residence of the Governor. The members of the
Committee on the Gallery of the Maryland His-
torical Society, acting in trust for the people of
Maryland, serve as the members of the Trust.
The chairperson of the Gallery Committee serves
as chairperson of the Trust.

The Trust, on behalf of the State, may receive
and accept gifts and loans of property for use in
the state rooms of Government House. No im-
provement, alteration, addition, removal, or other
change in the internal design or furnishings of
any state room of Government House is autho-
rized unless approved by the Trust. In performing
its duties and responsibilities the Trust is to con-
sult with and seek the advice of the Commission
on Artistic Property.

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