{"id":9563,"date":"2018-07-30T15:25:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T19:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/?p=9563"},"modified":"2018-07-30T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T19:25:35","slug":"project-c-o-r-e-application-of-interest-for-fiscal-year-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2018\/07\/30\/project-c-o-r-e-application-of-interest-for-fiscal-year-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Project C.O.R.E. &#8211; Application of Interest for Fiscal Year 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is <strong>soliciting Applications of Interest<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0to the gauge the need for future Project C.O.R.E. funding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The information provided in the Application of Interest will be used to inform the fiscal year 2020 Project CORE budget request. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Project C.O.R.E. \u2013 Creating Opportunities for Renewal and Enterprise<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u2013 is an initiative to eliminate blight in Baltimore City and make way for new green space, affordable and mixed use housing, and new and greater opportunities for businesses to innovate and grow. The initiative is a partnership between the State and the City of Baltimore to create safer and healthier communities for all residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through the use of Project C.O.R.E. and other complementary funding, the department hopes to continue to support the revitalization of Baltimore City and achieve various community development outcomes such as those described below:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Preparation of lots for development, through land assemblage, demolition and\/or site development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stabilization leading to redevelopment, with a focus on specific blocks and neighborhoods. For example, stabilization of scattered vacant properties on a block of majority-occupied housing. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stabilization of historic or contributing buildings, making them ready for rehabilitation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Predevelopment that expands housing opportunities for people of all economic backgrounds. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Site assemblage by land trust entity for permanent affordable housing development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Site assemblage by land trust entity for open space, recreation and\/or habitat preservation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opportunities for urban agriculture and community managed green space, or other potentially interim uses. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All Applications of Interest are due on\u00a0<\/span><b>Friday, August 10, 2018, 12:00 P.M. (noon).\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are two types of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eligible applicants<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for this Application of Interest: City of Baltimore agencies and nonprofit Community Development Organizations (CDOs) working in <\/span><b>Baltimore City<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All applications should be completed using the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projectportal.dhcd.state.md.us\/Login2.aspx?APPTHEME=MDDHCD&amp;ReturnURL=\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">online Intelligrants system<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u00a0Additional information about the application can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/07\/Project_CORE_FY20_RFA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program guidelines<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development\u00a0is soliciting Applications of Interest\u00a0to the gauge the need for future Project C.O.R.E. funding.\u00a0\u00a0 The information provided in the Application of Interest will be used to inform the fiscal year 2020 Project CORE budget request. Project C.O.R.E. \u2013 Creating Opportunities for Renewal and Enterprise\u00a0\u2013 is an initiative to<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2018\/07\/30\/project-c-o-r-e-application-of-interest-for-fiscal-year-2020\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,7,26,161,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-new-canvas-for-baltimore","category-community-development","category-neighborhood-revitalization","category-project-c-o-r-e","category-strategic-demolition-fund"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9565,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions\/9565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}