State provides $1 million toward developing downtown hotel site

Frederick will receive $1 million from the state to help develop and design the proposed site of a hotel and conference center along Carroll Creek. The grant from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development was announced Thursday as part of more than $63 million in funds for revitalization. The money will be used for site planning, engineering, grading, and necessary demolition for the hotel site at the corner of East Patrick and Carroll streets downtown, Richard Griffin, the city’s economic development director, said in an interview Thursday.