It was something that wasn’t supposed to happen – the use of taxpayer money to complete infrastructure improvements financed by Tax Increment (TIF) bonds.
That was what the Rawlings-Blake administration promised in 2013 when it pushed through a $107 million TIF for Michael Beatty’s Harbor Point project.
And it’s what the administration says now as it lobbies the City Council to ratify an unprecedented request for $535 million in TIF funding for Kevin Plank’s Port Covington.
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