Prince George’s County executive Rushern Baker says that when he took office in 2010, he would attend meetings with the heads of Maryland’s biggest counties and confidently proclaim that “Prince George’s is the economic engine of the Washington region.” They didn’t take him quite as seriously as the packed audience at Bisnow’s Future of Prince Georges County event did on Tuesday.
Now, with the county having more projects in the works than any other in Maryland, Baker says the heads of Montgomery County, Baltimore County and others find themselves trying to keep up, even stealing his old “economic engine” line.
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