The state money will tackle a number of projects at the facility including sprucing up the bathrooms, modernizing the phone system, upgrading lighting and renovating the “failing” bridges that span Charles Street.
The Mayor’s Office of Recovery Programs has recommended terminating a $500,000 grant to the state’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing resources to the LGBTQ community, Pride Center of Maryland. The grant would affect programming to address violence within the LGBTQ community.
A smaller-than-expected bill for school funding and more revenue from income and property taxes, investments, and parking tickets and fees helped the city balance its spending plan.
Expansion of the Seagirt Marine Terminal in 2013 allowed bigger ships like the Dali to load up at the Port of Baltimore, ships that vastly outflank the vessels operating when the Key Bridge was built in the 1970s.
Video, police and fire dispatch audio, ship location data and statements from officials capture the minutes leading up to one of the largest infrastructure disasters in Maryland’s history.
The system controlling how Baltimore purchases hundreds of millions of dollars of goods and services each year has been riddled with problems for years.
While Hopkins officials committed to taking immediate steps to phase out their reliance on the incinerator, an environmental representative from the largest hospital systems in Maryland, MedStar Health, told the council that they believe operators of the incinerator have responded appropriately to recent violations.
The fixed-price proposal, which is expected to get a vote before Baltimore’s mayor-controlled spending board on Wednesday, would lock in low prices for a subset of city-owned vacant properties — some at just $1.
City officials attempted to block an Inner Harbor rally hosted by the far-right website Church Militant in November of 2021, but the event went forward after a federal judge sided with the group’s First Amendment lawsuit.
Though legislation clearing the way for MCB Real Estate's $1 billion Harborplace redevelopment was introduced before City Council in October, the body held its first and only hearing on the proposal three weeks ago and is expected to give final approval Monday night.
One building alone — 100 E. Pratt Street, known as the T. Rowe Price building — is responsible for $54 million in losses to the city’s property tax base.