Maryland Drew a New Map. Jake Day Hired a Czar to Work It.
THE MARYLAND WIRE — November 13, 2026
Last week the U.S. Treasury Department made it official, and Maryland has a new map. One hundred fourteen census tracts across this state are now Opportunity Zones under the new federal rules, picked by Secretary Jake Day's Department of Housing and Community Development on the governor's behalf, and they take effect on January 1, 2027, for ten years. If you develop land, lend on land, or practice land-use law in Maryland, those 114 tracts are where a good share of your next decade gets decided.
Day also did something no Maryland housing secretary has done before. He put a name on the map. Bert Bossar is Maryland's first Opportunity Zone Investment Czar, a man whose whole job is to pull private capital into those tracts and help the projects in them get built. And if you have money sitting in the old zones, you have a tax deadline seven weeks from now that matters more than the new map does. Let me take it in order.
