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New Castle County pursues opportunity... with Opportunity Zone nominations
WDEL reports that 13 census tracts in New Castle County were included in Delaware Governor Matt Meyer's Opportunity Zone nominations. The areas include parts of the Route 9 corridor, Wilmington and Newark, as well as the planned port expansion site at Edgemoor.
The selections still require U.S. Treasury certification. County officials described coordination with state and city teams and said qualifying projects may use the county's streamlined permitting program. Nomination is a step toward designation; it does not by itself establish that a project has secured investment or completed federal approval.
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