Cherry Cove – Hotel Rooms, Office Space, Storage Space and Apartments in Southern Maryland

Cherry Cove Hospitality Management of southern Maryland announces a new Home2Suites by Hilton hotel property, in Lexington Park MD near the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (PAX River). Home2 Suites by Hilton, a mid-tier, all-suite hotel brand designed for modern business travelers and extended-stay guests, celebrated the opening recently of the brand’s seventh U.S. hotel with the new Lexington Park, Maryland property. This is the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified hotel in the brand’s portfolio.

Cherry Cove of Lexington Park, MD manages this and many other short and long-term hotel, apartment, office and storage space services in southern Maryland, with all properties easily accessible to the DC metro area and Northern Virginia (from Rt 4, Rt 5 and 301 in Maryland to the Beltway). If you need space, odds are Cherry Cove has it. Whether it be hotel rooms, apartments, office space or storage, the property managers of Cherry Cove have the space you need, all while providing superior customer service and industry expertise.

Catering directly to the southern Maryland (SOMD) and Patuxent River area, Cherry Cove’s range of well-maintained properties suit the needs of any potential customer. Their Hospitality Division serves Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties with hotel rooms and event spaces in southern Maryland including Hampton Inn, Marriott, and Hilton properties, plus the beautiful and picturesque scenery of St. George’s Island Inn and Suites.

Cherry Cove also owns and manages rental apartments in Greenview Village, offering one, two and three bedroom options conveniently located near the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. Close to local schools and allowing pets, this safe and quiet community offers everything a renter is looking for near the PAX River NAS.

If you need southern Maryland office space, Cherry Cove has furnished offerings ranging from 156 to 1,063 square feet, located very close to the PAX River NAS. Amenities include dedicated Ethernet, conference rooms and cleaning services.

In addition to southern Maryland hotels, apartments and office space, Cherry Cove also manages private and secure self storage units, available in a variety of sizes. All come with 24-hour access, and an on-site day manager. From files to inventory, personal belongings to vehicles, Cherry Cove has the storage space to fit your needs.

Last Tuesday offered a very interesting chapter in a long story concerning the development of commercial aquaculture and “Chesapeake Fresh Oysters” in Southern Maryland, i.e. “floating oyster beds” anchored in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

Some years ago, a local outfit under the name Circle C Oyster Ranch made a go at growing, harvesting and offering for sale oysters from floating beds anchored in St. Jerome’s creek, in Ridge, MD. This “aquaculture” practice was and is popular from a State of Maryland perspective, providing badly-needed water filtration and cleansing services while protecting the slowly recovering natural oyster beds from over-harvesting. The enterprise received many grants and public interest, but eventually withered under negative community relations and mismanagement, along with rejection of permit renewals by the DNR, to become a derelict flotilla of abandoned floating oyster beds with dead oysters, strewn all over the lee shores and native marshlands.

Enter the Chesapeake Fresh Oyster Company, Inc. to the area, with its “new and improved” strategy for community relations, renewed permit applications and new ownership out of Baltimore. At the Leonardtown MD government center, last Tuesday’s public input session held to review the permit renewal brought out the local Ridge landowners and Community Association, as well as the local Health Department, to share information and provide feedback to the new commercial venture.

Chespeake Fresh Oysters, Inc. appears to be headed in the right direction, offering a friendly though tightly-scripted and templated approach to Southern Maryland community relations…complete with all requisite multi-generational and local connections to environmental causes, St. Mary’s college alumni and the token “local waterman” interests – i.e. a long-time Maryland Bay Pilot and family, and Mr. Lore, Chesapeake Fresh Oyster’s landlord in Ridge, and the long-time owner of the Airedele road peninsula properties and its oyster harvesting rights (now somewhat distributed among newer riparian owners).

Chesapeake Fresh Oysters, with newly-registered Internet domains under “Save the Oyster Foundation, Inc.” (savetheoyster.org), appears to reflect varied Baltimore-based investment interests including Ray Jackson of Stonewall Capital and Fred Cheek of Shamrock Recycling.

Many questions and concerns remain to be answered following the session, from availability of local water quality data and questions about commercial tax status to riparian rights easements and shoreline cleanup, but it appears the permit approval process will likely move forward without more significant hurdles. So, the jury’s in session now on this great idea and much-needed boost to the Maryland oystering industry and ecological preservation interests – but very sensitive local community relations investment.