Governor Moore visits SU’s Blackwell Hall

Salisbury, Md. – Construction at Salisbury University’s Blackwell Hall is well underway and was one of the stops during Governor Wes Moore’s “Delivering for Maryland” Tour.

University officials say the project was at one point in jeopardy until the governor helped secure the final $1.2 million needed to complete the project.

“Folks don’t know that this project was in jeopardy,” SU Chief of Staff Eli Modlin said. “When budgets, were tight and things were difficult following the pandemic, we were going to have to find the money elsewhere, and the project was going to shrink, and it could have meant jobs were on the line.”

Moore said his administration has invested more than $66 million in turning Blackwell Hall into a “one stop shop” for students over the past four years.

“It’s going to create good paying jobs for the 300 men and women who live in this community. It is generating more than $200 million of economic impact for this community,” he said, mentioning that the majority if the people working on the building are those living on the Eastern Shore.

Construction for Blackwell is anticipated to conclude this fall.