Lawmakers ask developer to scuttle College Park plans for shopping center, housing

By Miranda S. Spivack
 

A group of Prince George’s lawmakers is asking developer Brian Gibbons to drop his plans to redevelop the University of Maryland golf course, where they say he is proposing a shopping center with big-box stores and some housing.

“Rather than investing in areas in need of revitalization and with existing infrastructure, this project requires new roads and new stormwater infrastructure. . . . In fact, this development would pave over the most significant green space in the area,” said the letter from three state senators, nine delegates, three Prince George’s County Council members, and the mayor of College Park.

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