MORGANTOWN – Developer David Biafora is suing Brian Butcher for $257,434.07 claiming Butcher, the city’s deputy mayor and Morgantown City Council’s 7th Ward representative, “made purposefully defamatory and slanderous statements motivated by his anti-capitalist desire to wreck the ...
MORGANTOWN -- It’s called East End Village Redevelopment District No. 6, but the forthcoming tax increment financing district recently initiated by the city of Morgantown stretches far beyond the 9.5 or so acres overlooking Richwood Avenue targeted for redevelopment under the East End ...
MORGANTOWN -- Morgantown City Council will meet in special session Tuesday evening to consider moving forward with the city’s sixth Tax Increment Finance, or TIF, district. Council is expected to set a public hearing to be included as part of its Nov. 4 regular meeting agenda in order to ...
MORGANTOWN -- Montgomery Ward could only dream of such deals. The parties entered into a lease-purchase agreement in December of 2016, but the Monongalia County Commission has yet to receive a payment from the Monongalia County Development Authority for use of the former Montgomery Ward ...
MORGANTOWN -- As the master developer for the East End Village development project, Dave Biafora has heard the questions time and again. Is it really going to happen? What’s it going to look like? “Oh, it’s happening. It’s happening. If I’m behind it, I’m going to ...
A camping ban, panhandling laws, the collapse of Bartlett House. Public outcry, lawsuits, conflict. No single topic dominated Morgantown’s public discourse, and therefore headlines, in 2024 like the swirl of topics surrounding a relatively small, but vulnerable, group of ...