Salisbury Chamber pushes for downtown Salisbury Development

SALISBURY, Md. – A group of businesses in Salisbury are pushing for more downtown development.

They claim that the city of Salisbury has been granted $250 million for improvements to the downtown area.

Some efforts have included improvements to the Ross and the Salisbury Town Center.

The city had been stalled on the potential Salisbury Town Center complex. Currently, some downtown business owners have filed complaints to the city and contractors.

Holly Worthington of Worthington Realty is one of them, she says there are not enough spaces for downtown parking. Worthington’s lawyer, Anthony Gorski says they are in the Discovery phase of the lawsuit, and the way the City of Salisbury went about selling the open parking lot was “very undercutting, and unfair.”

The Mayor, Randy Taylor is also skeptical about downtown revitalization. He has consistently expressed the need for proper parking allotment. He feels the city might not be able to become denser without the adequate spaces.

President and CEO of Salisbury Chamber, Bill Chambers, is calling on the city to use the funding in a way that would help grow the local economy.

“A quarter of a million dollars of investment sitting on the sidelines for the city of Salisbury,” said Chambers. “They got to figure this out, there’s every other small city in Maryland. From Cumberland to Hagerstown to Frederick has tremendous amounts of development taking place in their downtown areas. The leadership is those cities are figuring it out, Salisbury needs to figure it out.”

WMDT will provide updates on potential downtown projects.