In April of 2021, County Executive Calvin Ball created the Ellicott City Project Advisory Committee. The committee spent a year providing feedback and input on three major improvement projects happening in Ellicott City:

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Potential redevelopment of the historic courthouse: The County recently vacated it's former Circuit Courthouse at 8360 Court Avenue and relocated to the newly developed Circuit Courthouse. The County’s vacating of its historic Courthouse presents a unique reuse opportunity of the County-owned Courthouse and adjacent properties that have supported the Courthouse functions which has operated for more than 175 years. Responses to a Request for Information issued by the County at the beginning of March have been received. In addition, the County is pursuing a rezoning of the courthouse properties, which will be heard before the planning board on May 6th.

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Renovation and reuse of the six county-owned buildings on Main Street: In May of 2019, County Executive Ball announced that six of the ten buildings on Main Street previously slated for demolition would be preserved under the Ellicott City Safe and Sound plan. These six buildings were immediately stabilized for safety. The next step is to renovate and reoccupy the buildings. The buildings will remain under the county’s ownership until the entirety of the Safe and Sound flood mitigation plan has been implemented.

Redesign of Tiber Park: When the Maryland Avenue Culvert project breaks ground, the landscape of the lower end of Main Street will be changed. At the completion of the project, Tiber Park will be rebuilt in accordance with the policies outlined in the Ellicott City Watershed Master Plan, which was approved unanimously by the Howard County Council.