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Historic St. Mary's City seeks planning funds for visitor-center conversion, flags backlog in site improvements
Summary
Representatives of the Historic St. Mary's City Commission told the Capital Budget Subcommittee the park needs planning funds for a visitor-center conversion and raised concerns about a lag in encumbering site-improvement funds that could affect preparations for Maryland's 400th anniversary.
Historic St. Mary's City Commission officials told the Maryland General Assembly's Capital Budget Subcommittee on the need for planning funds to convert an existing visitor center and for faster use of previously authorized site‑improvement funds.
Budget analyst Elizabeth Bridal told the subcommittee that "construction is almost complete on the new Maryland Heritage Interpretive Center, which is expected to open in spring or summer of 2026 and will then serve as the new visitor center for the park." Bridal said $381,000 is planned in fiscal 2026 to begin the conversion project and that construction is scheduled for fiscal 2028–29. She said the total estimated cost for the conversion is just under $15,000,000.
The conversion would repurpose the current visitor center and an adjacent storage facility into an education and…
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