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The two-building Center\West apartment complex is the only project La Cité has completed in its plan to revitalize Poppelton. It has struggled to find renters for its 262 units.
HUD said no, then yes, to building this luxury apartment complex in Poppleton
Not one penny of the $56 million construction loan insured by the federal government has been repaid.
The site of the Poppleton development in West Baltimore.
Why Baltimore chose an untested developer for its huge — now failed — Poppleton project
Since winning a bid to redevelop West Baltimore's Poppleton neighborhood almost 20 years ago, La Cité Development has built a fraction of what it planned, leaving several blocks of vacant land in one of Baltimore’s oldest Black neighborhoods. The city grew so frustrated with inaction that last month it canceled La Cité’s exclusive development deal.
This is a photo of an apartment complex in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Poppleton.
Water bills & Sheila Dixon nudges: Emails show rancor between Poppleton developer and city officials
Emails between developer La Cité and Baltimore officials reveal that unpaid water bills inflamed an already strained relationship — and contributed to the city’s decision to end La Cité's future development rights in Poppleton.
This is a picture of Erricka Bridgeford leading a "sacred space" ritual in front of the East Baltimore home where Breaunna Cormley was killed.
Police arrest suspect after 12-year-old fatally shot in East Baltimore
Police said officers arrested a man Sunday morning who is suspected of fatally shooting a 12-year-old girl in an East Baltimore rowhouse two days earlier.
Six warehouses in a Baltimore logistics park sold for $140.5 million, according to CBRE.
Six warehouses in Baltimore County just sold for $141 million
The warehouses at Baltimore Crossroads were bought by EQT Exeter, a global real estate investment firm based outside Philadelphia.
In January 2024, the CEO of UPS said the company planned to lay off about 12,000 employees this year.
UPS to close Baltimore County warehouse, lay off up to 540 people
UPS notified the Maryland Department of Labor on June 20 that it is closing its facility at 3901 Vero Road on Aug. 23.
More than 150 people jumped into the water at Bond Street Wharf on June 23, 2024 to raise awareness for a clean and usable waterway. The author, pictured, was one of them. (Kaitlin Newman/The Baltimore Banner)
I jumped in Baltimore’s harbor. Now, I’m a changed man.
I joined more than 150 people Sunday as part of the inaugural Harbor Splash organized by the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore.
Hospital beds in an emergency room.
Hospitals are crowded. One sued a patient for trespassing to empty a bed.
The 83-year-old patient was stable enough to leave MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. When he refused, the hospital sued.
This is a photo of an apartment complex in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Poppleton.
Will Poppleton ever be rebuilt? City-backed developer blows financing deadline
La Cité signed its deal during the mayoral administration of Martin O’Malley in 2006 to redevelop Poppleton, a predominantly Black neighborhood a few minutes from downtown.
Preakness Stakes brings thousands of fans to Pimlico Race Course each year. How could it not have an economic impact on Baltimore?
A Baltimore economic boom from Preakness? Don’t bet on it
Maryland’s leaders are also placing a bet — and it’s a big one. Thanks to legislation enacted this year, the state will invest up to $400 million revamping the Pimlico Race Course and building a new training center.
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Intelligent Systems Center, pictured, is one of many buildings on the 461-acre property in Laurel.
How a Hopkins lab that began in an auto shop became Howard County’s largest private employer
The Pentagon has awarded the Applied Physics Laboratory $12 billion over the past decade, making Hopkins the largest university recipient of Defense Department money.
TOWSON, MARYLAND - JUNE 20: Customers shop at The Apple Store at the Towson Town Center mall, the first of the company's retail locations in the U.S. where workers voted over the weekend to unionize, on June 20, 2022 in Towson, Maryland. Following a late-pandemic era wave of workers demanding higher pay,  better benefits and more negotiating leverage, 65 of the 98 workers at the Towson Apple Store voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union on June 18.
Towson Apple store workers ready to strike
Two years after organizing the first union at an Apple retail store, workers in Towson, Baltimore County, are preparing to take another unprecedented step: Becoming the first to go on strike against Apple. The union voted “overwhelmingly” on Saturday to authorize a strike.
As pro-Palestine demonstrations at Johns Hopkins University stretch into their second week, protesters are demanding the school cut ties with the Department of Defense, which awards billions to a Hopkins research lab.
Campus protesters want Johns Hopkins to divest. This lab is what they mean.
The Pentagon has awarded a university lab $12 billion over past decade. Pro-Palestinian protesters want that to end.
A memorial site to honor the construction workers who lost their lives in the collapse of the Key Bridge sits on the side of the road right before the blockade to Fort Armistead Park.
Search for missing construction workers on Key Bridge ends after sixth body found
The sixth construction worker on the Key Bridge when it collapsed has been recovered.
This is a photo of The Study, which opened its hotel in October, followed by a ground-level restaurant called Dear Charles in January.
General contractor says new Johns Hopkins-affiliated hotel owes it $4.3 million
A construction contractor is suing a new hotel located across from the Johns Hopkins University campus in Homewood, alleging it is owed $4.3 million for unpaid work at the property, called The Study.
Residents say they learned last year that a former auto parts warehouse in West Baltimore would become Charm City Medical Center, which will offer methadone treatment.
A methadone clinic is opening in West Baltimore. Neighbors want to know: Why here?
A West Baltimore neighborhood near Mondawmin Mall is trying to stop the opening of a clinic that administers methadone.
United Safety Technology planned to convert this empty warehouse into a nitrile glove factory employing 2,000 people.
Taxpayers sank almost $100 million into a COVID glove factory that never opened
Dan Izhaky, who founded United Safety Technology in 2020, said his ambitions for the factory ran headlong into the country’s struggle to manufacture PPE.
Jonathan Daniels, executive director of the Maryland Port Administration, oversees the Port of Baltimore, which directly employs more than 15,000 people.
He came to Baltimore to run the port. Two months in, the bridge collapsed.
Jonathan Daniels was in his seventh week on the job as executive director of the Maryland Port Administration when the Key Bridge collapsed. Now he is tasked with overseeing the growing port’s return to regular operations.
Laurel Medical Center will be among the 10 University of Maryland Medical System locations where the emergency room will be operated by an outside firm.
Your hospital is a nonprofit, but your ER doctor works for Wall Street
Maryland's emergency rooms need improving, and hospitals are increasing outsourcing the job to a national firm.
Government workers at Tradepoint Atlantic cut up the remnants of the Francis Scott Key Bridge to prepare them to be recycled.
A day at Tradepoint Atlantic, Baltimore’s only dock outside the Key Bridge
Tradepoint Atlantic is the Port of Baltimore’s only deep-water terminal unaffected by the Key Bridge collapse.
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