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The state Supreme Court has ruled the economic development projects which are
to be funded by video lottery, are legal. The sale of bonds to finance projects in 27
counties can now proceed.
The central west virginia regional counties, or counties with the lowest population
(voters), poorest infrastructure and highest unemployment were unable to make
the list.
It was unclear how funding a $6 million high school in Jefferson County creates
jobs.
The projects listed by county:
Barbour:
Belington Industrial Park, $650,000
Berkeley:
Downtown Martinsburg redevelopment, $2.75 million
Eastern W.Va. Regional Airport terminal, $1.266 million
Cabell:
Marshall University biotechnology research park, $12.5 million
Pullman Square, downtown Huntington, $10.6 million
SOGEFI, a new business, $990,000
Fayette:
Wolf Creek business-industrial site, $2 million
Greenbrier:
Greenbrier Valley Theater, $250,000
Hampshire:
Hotel, conference and wellness center, $5.4 million
Hardy:
Moorefield wastewater treatment plant, $5 million
Land purchase by local government, $1 million
Harrison:
Charles Pointe conference center, Bridgeport, $6 million
Clarksburg parking garage, $4,358,500
Jefferson:
New high school, $6 million
Kanawha:
Charleston baseball park, $12 million
Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, $3 million
Biotechnology business incubator, $1.5 million
Expansion of BIDCO business incubator, $133,000
Lewis:
Stonewall Jackson Resort, $3.5 million
New state fire academy at Jackson's Mill, $2 million
Logan:
Chief Logan State Park lodge and recreation center, $10 million
Man hospital expansion, $1 million
Marion:
I-79 Technology Park expansion, $14.50 million
Fairmont parking garage, $2 million
Marshall:
Grand Vue Park construction, improvements, $2.16 million
Mason:
Point Pleasant Riverfront Park, $1.2 million
McDowell:
McDowell County Correctional Facility, $5.2 million
Mercer:
Technology center at Concord College, $2 million
Upgrades to Bluefield baseball park, $250,000
Mingo:
Redevelopment authority for two industrial parks, $4.5 million
Monongalia:
Morgantown public theater and marina, $13.9 million
Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute at WVU, $10 million
Morgantown parking garage, Square at Falling Run, $5 million
National Biometric Security Project technology development, $2.3 million
Chaplin Hill reclaimed mine site, $1.2 million
Ohio:
Business park anchored by Cabela's, $35 million
Wheeling Park Commission, expansion of lodge, $2.5 million
Putnam:
Advantage Valley Partners business park, $3,228,302
Development authority business park, $1.57 million
Construction, renovation at WV Steel plant, Poca, $300,000
Construction of steel building for new business, $100,000
Raleigh:
X-Quad Commerce Center and Raleigh Memorial Air Industrial Park, $12 million
Randolph:
Tourism developments in Elkins, $1.5 million
Summers:
Bluestone Dam hydroelectric plant, $2.5 million
Tucker:
Industrial park infrastructure, $500,000
Wood:
Electronic Recycling Center for polymer industry, $4.3 million
Riverfront Park in Parkersburg, $3 million
Wyoming:
Twin Falls Resort State Park lodge expansion, $3 million
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