What Would You Build in Havre de Grace?

Havre de Grace, MD - Earlier this week, Havre de Grace Patch asked our Facebook readers what they would build or fix in town if they were given $1 million.

Readers from across the area responded with answers varying from new playgrounds, renovated high schools and improved hospitals.

Also early this week, U.S. News and World Report released its list of the Top 10 Children’s Hospitals Across the Country. The hospitals were ranked in terms of “clinical outcomes,” “efficient coordination of care,” and “care-related resources.”

The publication periodically releases lists regarding the best schools in the country as well as most livable cities. Many of the things that make a town or city ‘livable’ are resources and public spaces i.e. good schools, roads, parks, libraries, etc. Not surprisingly, these were many of the things readers said they would build or fix in their town if granted $1 million to do so.

Here’s what your neighbors said they would build in Havre de Grace:

• "Havre de Grace High School."
• "The High School, keep the hospital, bring Trader Joe's to the old Sav-A-Lot/A&P building."
• "Put a new grocery store of some sort where the old Sav-A-Lot used to be near Bourbon street. Really need something for the people who have difficulties (no car, elderly) at that end of town to have access to a grocery store of sorts."
• "Movie theater, roller rink, or something fun to do."
• "Roller rink or bowling."
• "A farm, lots of land and a nice farm house with a big porch."
• "The downtown area and bring in Whole Foods!"
• "Would buy up all the open land so they can not put home's on the land!"
• "Buy and fill every vacant shop downtown and work on bringing in the tourists!"
• "A park along the water with lighted tennis courts, beach volleyball and basketball courts, jogging/rollerblading/biking trails along the river, outdoor fitness equipment, entertainment stage, outdoor movies, pavilions that could be rented. Also, outdoor ping pong tables, dog park, an artificial beach, an educational public arboretum"

What would you build or renovate in Havre de Grace if you had $1 million? Let us know on our Facebook page.

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