The Maryland Board of Public Works approved funding for the Footer Dye Works building. Cumberland Mayor Brian Grim says the more than one million dollars in state funding will now allow for developers to begin work on the building. According to Canal Place officials Footer Building Development, LLC will begin the undertaking to renovate the historic building into a mixed use building, containing a restaurant and brew pub on the first floor with offices and apartments on the upper floors. The renovation is expected to cost approximately 7 million dollars which will be funded from the developer, and an additional $1.15 million that will come from the state of Maryland. The project is expected to be completed by December 2016.
