The Dagger has news on tonight’s election results from Aberdeen and Bel Air.

The race for Bel Air Town Commissioners will not be decided until Monday when provisional ballots are certified and the counting of absentee ballots is finished:

Currently, Preston leads the field with 414 votes, followed by Carey with 411 and Greg Adolph with 410. Ricky Davis received 356 votes, Dave Mitchell received 32 votes, and Steve Testerman received 11 votes.

In Aberdeen, Michael Bennett remained Mayor. Landbeck, Garner, Elliott, and Ruth elected to City Council.

Aberdeen officials have cleared the way for a 500,000-square-foot business park next to Ripken Stadium, but not everyone sees the planned development as a home run for the city.

Towson developer J. Joseph Credit wants to put up the complex of four buildings to cash in on a wave of military jobs being shifted to Aberdeen Proving Ground as part of the military’s base realignment.

City leaders say the new offices — approved by Aberdeen Mayor Michael Bennett and City Council Aug. 24 — should help make up for a lack of space to accommodate thousands of workers. But the business park likely will not come with the hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenue promised by earlier plans for the property. Credit had planned to build a 16-screen multiplex movie theater and 130,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space within walking distance of the stadium.

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Construction at the Commons at Fieldside Village is not slated to begin until after Credit has lined up enough tenants to lease space at the property, according to city documents.

Credit, formerly CEO of Nottingham Properties Inc. and now head of Sherwood Partners LLC, has been planning to develop the property since 2002 as a companion to the city’s Ripken Stadium baseball stadium. He could not be reached for comment. The project’s costs have not been disclosed.

As much as 3.1 million square feet of commercial space will need to be built surrounding the military base for defense contractors, space which isn’t available in the county now.

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Fieldside Village is just one of several planned business parks in the city, Miller said, and he expects many of those developments will start to move forward in the coming months. Developers including Manekin LLC, Stewart Associates and Preston Partners are all planning projects tied to BRAC. That’s in addition to two large business parks under construction by Corporate Office Properties Trust and St. John Properties Inc.

WMAR

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But a neighbor who claims he recruits people for the nearby Aberdeen Proving Ground claimed in a recent radio report that crime in the Winston Choice subdivision is already prompting transplants from the base realignment process to choose to live in Delaware.

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“I was very surprised by this story,” said Harford County Economic Development Deputy Director Denise Carnaggio, “I feel very comfortable that the folks that have moved in from New Jersey and other who are moving from Virginia and Texas are very pleased with our quality of life, and they serve as our multipliers.”

The latest numbers show more than 75% of the early mover for BRAC have chosen to rent or buy homes in Harford County.

13% have opted for Cecil County, while just over 5% have located in Pennsylvania and less than 4% have headed for Delaware.

The resident sounding the alarm also claimed in a neighborhood of about 75 homes, criminals had broken into 15 cars.

But Aberdeen City Police have looked back at the crime numbers thus far this year, and they say crime in that area doesn’t merit this level of warning.

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WBAL.com

He’s lived in his Aberdeen development for two years, and Anthony Seda said that he has had enough of crime in his Aberdeen development,.

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Aberdeen Police Sgt. Fred Bundick told WBAL News that as of last Monday, there have been 41 police calls to the development. He notes that the department has assigned a community policing officer to the neighborhood to address residents’ concerns.

Seda, who works in personnel recruitment at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, this that news of the crime is going to keep the thousands of workers moving into the area as a result of the BRAC expansion.

“We find it difficult on the base to recruit people from New Jersey. In this recession, we’re finding the Fort Monmouth workers are coming to the Aberdeen, and their moving to Delaware, along the Maryland Delaware line.”