Dover AFB

• Runway 01-19 reopened in September 2016

• C-5 Super Galaxy fleet temporarily relocated to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey for eight months

• $102 million project

• Runway 14-32 reopened in August

• Repaired damages around the intersection of the dual runways

• Extends lifespan of runway 50-75 years

• $144 million total in improvements to runways

Dover AFB

DAFB Open House

• Performances by the Thunderbirds• 65,000 people for Saturday and

Sunday open house dates in August• Hopes to have Open House again in

2019

• In 2019, full-in C-5M and C-17 hangars to be completed• New elementary and middle schools to be built – serving 650 students• Base has annual economic impact of $565 million• Workforce of 6,400

• 3,900 active, 1,500 reserve, 1,000 civilian

Dover Air Force Base’s impact

• December story in Delaware State News about the ongoing projects in Kent County

• West Dover Connector• Thompsonville• Little Heaven• South Frederica• Camden Bypass

Highways

• Opened Friday

• Starts at Rodney Village Shopping Center on U.S. 13, travels to North Street and Saulsbury Road

• Named POW-MIA Parkway in late October

2016 Developments

• Groundbreaking for South Frederica interchange in March

• Groundbreaking for DE Turf sports complex in May

DE Turf

• First tournament Easter weekend• College Connection’s Shooting

Star Field Hockey Tournament Showcase

• 12 synthetic turf fields• 84 acres• $18 million annual impact• In April, room rentals were up 4

percent, and in June and July up 2.6 and 2.1 percent, respectively

• Greater Kent Committee started this effort in 2008

Kent County Regional Resource Recovery Facility

• $24 million removal and capacity expansion project completed in November

• Can now handle 20 million gallons of wastewater per day

• Bio-solids available to local farmers

• Able to accommodate large manufacturers moving into the area

Dover optimism• As of May, building permit

revenues for the city were $860,000 -- up 141 percent over last year

• More than $37 million in new commercial investments approved

• First State Orthopaedics broke ground on 43,000-square foot facility in Enterprise Business Park in July

Chesapeake Utilities• October groundbreaking held for new Dover

campus• New facility will be 100,000 square feet• Eastern Shore Natural Gas and Chesapeake Utilities

on site• 250 employees at this location• Chesapeake dates back to 1859 – Dover Gas Light

Center at Eden Hill• New rehabilitation facility, Dover• 65,000 square feet• 80 beds, private rooms and baths• More than 120 employees• $19 million facility to open soon

New Shopping Center in Dover

• Capital Station• Former Playtex factory and water

tower to be demolished• Will become retail center, featuring

Aldi grocery store, other retail space and restaurants

• 60,285 square feet• At Division Street and DuPont Highway

Dover Mall• Seven bills approved by

General Assembly and signed into law

• Simon Property Group and Western Development Corp. plan to expand the complex

• New access road, connected to Route 1, would be built with public-private partnership

• Tolls would pay for the construction

• Other property tax measures may be used

• Estimated cost: $31 million

Johnny JanosikWorld of Furniture

• 60,000 square feet• On U.S. 13, south of Dover• Founder Johnny Janosik passed

away in July 2016 just before the groundbreaking

• Johnny Janosik’s stores now employee more than 225 people

• Started in 1953 in Laurel with “longest store on the shore with the shortest prices”

Coming to the area

• Advance Auto Parts, Harrington• Taco Bell, Harrington• Lidl, Camden• Grotto Pizza, Camden• Wawa, Camden• Panera, Dover• LongHorn Steakhouse, Dover• Aldi, Dover• Lidl, Dover

Downtown Development Districts

• Smyrna, Milford, Harrington and Dover all have been designated• $22 million allocated by state• In its first two years, generated $200 million in private investments in

the state• Kent County has up to a $10,000 match per project

District Total Development Costs

Total DDD Reservations

Dover $19,348,208 $2,266,241Harrington $1,035,000 $195,000Milford $2,411,993 $414,734Smyrna $1,363,200 $212,140

Source: Delaware State Housing Authority

Smyrna• Dairy Sweet• Dated building at gateway to downtown• Demolished and replaced with mixed-use

building which will still house Dairy Sweet on the first floor

Milford• Lou’s Bootery / Pikus Building

• Full historic rehabilitation of this landmark downtown building

Milford

• Touch of Italy• New location – adaptive reuse of M&T

Bank Building in heart of Milford• Keeping the original bank vault in the

interior as part of design

New homes in Dover

• Central Delaware Habitat for Humanity and NCALL Research

• Demolition, rehab, and new construction

• Homeownership Projects in the Restoring Central Dover area

Dover townhouses• MauTiste Investment Group builds six new

townhouses, located on West Reed Street• The two-story, three-bedroom, one-and-

half bath townhouses, are located on the lot that was once occupied by the old Square Club.

• They will be priced at $139,900.

• Large project: 3,000-square-foot expansion of Connections' addiction management center• $500,000 for 11 apartments above Stone’s tavern• $300,000-plus project for apartments above Downtown Junction

Non-DDD projects in works:260-unit apartment complex at Harrington Gardens$1 million in USDA grants/loans for water/sewer improvements

Harrington

Bayhealth/Milford

• $300 million Health Campus• 165 acres

• South of Milford off Del. 1• To open in 2019• 440,00 square-foot hospital and outpatient

center

• All private patient rooms• Partnership with Nemours Children’s Health

Systems• The new hospital on the health campus will be

135 feet tall.

• Bayhealth's Clarke Avenue facility sits on a 22-acre site (the health campus is roughly 7.5 times larger).

In its place in Milford …

• In March, Bayhealth announced it would sell current Milford Memorial Hospital to Nationwide Healthcare Services

• Nationwide has contracted with Dynamis Advisors, Inc. to envision a redevelopment plan for the 22-acre site in Milford

• Plans for the facility include around 300 full-time jobs and hundreds of temporary contracting positions

Andrew WestEditor

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