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West Baltimore methadone clinic opening soon despite lawsuit, owner says
Dr. Devesh Kanjarpane has been trying for years to convert a former auto parts warehouse in West Baltimore into a health center that will also dispense methadone.
Maryland federal workers, Trump wants you back in the office
President Donald Trump signed a 65-word executive order that appeared to have a big effect on Maryland — a state that depends on federal jobs like no other.
A fatal plunge, an icy DC river and a rescue boat stuck in Baltimore
As emergency crews responded to a submerged vehicle, they didn’t have access to a boat with ice-breaking capabilities because it has reportedly been in Baltimore for repairs.
After a career spent making Baltimore better, Waterfront Partnership president retires
Laurie Schwartz will retire on June 30 as president of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, a role she has held since the nonprofit’s creation in 2005.
The man leading the Superblock redevelopment believes fourth time’s a charm
For the past decade, Dan Taylor and his team have been tasked with solving one of Baltimore’s trickiest development challenges: the Superblock.
A controversial tax break for a Baltimore office tower ends after 15 years
Fifteen years after it opened its doors, Baltimore’s most valuable office tower will pay a full tax bill in 2025.
The new factory coming to South Baltimore that (almost) no one is talking about
With virtually no fanfare, a Greek-based company called Hellenic Cables has started work on a factory that will employ 120 people in an industrial corner of the city known as Wagner’s Point.
Card counter claims Horseshoe Casino illegally detained him
A well-known card counter filed a lawsuit against Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore, claiming the venue illegally detained him when he had committed no crime.
Chinese nationals say Baltimore developer ‘duped’ them into $47M boondoggle
A lawsuit filed this month in Baltimore Circuit Court says developer Ron Lipscomb lured Chinese investors seeking U.S. citizenship for a hotel project in East Baltimore that had wildly inflated construction costs.
Lender forecloses on newly renovated apartment tower in downtown Baltimore
A financial firm is suing Vivo Baltimore over missed payments on a $45 million loan. The newly renovated apartment building is located downtown.
Poppleton apartment complex for sale as investor wants its money back
Following a lawsuit filed this summer, an investor is forcing La Cite Development to sell a troubled apartment complex in West Baltimore, court records show.
Morgan State professor fined for presenting himself as licensed architect
A Morgan State University professor has been misrepresenting himself as a licensed architect for years. The Maryland State Board of Architects fined him $20,000 this month, the largest such fine in more than a decade.
Wanna slash the federal bureaucracy? You might take Maryland’s economy with it, too.
About 10% of the state’s workers, or an estimated 327,000 Marylanders, are directly employed by the federal government, according to the U.S. Census.
Judge halts megamerger that would force sale of Maryland grocery stores
In ruling Tuesday, a federal judge sided with federal regulators, temporarily blocking the merger of two national grocery giants and, for now, stopping the sale of some Harris Teeter stores.
Baltimore took a big bet on casino gambling. A decade later, the chips are down.
Horseshoe Casino, which opened a decade ago, has seen declining revenues since their peak in 2016, and employs about one-third as many people as in its first year.
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