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Brooklyn, New York City skyline from Brooklyn Bridge  Park.
What Baltimore could learn from other city waterfront transformations
Baltimore is not alone. Pretty much every city on the water has grappled with how to best use its shoreline.
Kevin Plank, who founded Under Armour in 1996, will return as its CEO in April.
Kevin Plank returns as CEO of Under Armour
Stephanie Linnartz, who had been CEO for little more than a year, will advise the company through April 30.
Harborplace’s Pratt Street Pavilion.
RIP Harborplace: It may not be a mall, but it was a fad
The Harborplace pavilions were once a template for cities across the country and world. Those days are over.
Then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer, left, and James Rouse, center, cut the ceremonial ribbon at the opening of Harborplace in Baltimore on July 3, 1980.
Baltimore voters tried to kill Harborplace decades ago. Here we go again.
An ambitious redevelopment plan for the Inner Harbor is sparking heated debates in Baltimore. The same thing happened nearly 50 years ago.
P. David Bramble, right, is leading a $900 million overhaul of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. His vision reimagines Harborplace, built by James Rouse, top right,
How did a single developer come to control the fate of Harborplace?
P. David Bramble — more than any other individual — will determine the future of the Inner Harbor.
An aerial view of Coke Point, the proposed site of the Sparrows Point Container Terminal.
Can a plan to supercharge the Port of Baltimore help clean up the bay?
Tradepoint Atlantic in Baltimore County wants to build a new marine terminal. Now they need to figure out where to put all that dirt in an environmentally responsible way.
Peter Angelos paid $173 million for the Orioles in 1993, and the franchise value has increased tenfold since then.
Peter Angelos bought the Orioles for a shocking price in 1993. It paid off.
Financial experts say buying the team is almost always a shrewd financial decision.
The Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures building at 1812 Ashland Ave. in Baltimore.
This startup was worth $2 billion. Now its Baltimore office is closing.
On Monday, Exact Sciences notified state regulators of the layoffs and closure of what began as Thrive Earlier Detection Corp.
As of Friday afternoon, the cheapest seats for the AFC championship game on ticket-resale platforms such as SeatGeek and Ticketmaster were about $730 (which includes a $180 service fee).
When Ravens tickets cost more than a weekend trip to London
Can a Ravens fan afford to miss Sunday’s game? Emotionally speaking, maybe not. Financially speaking, definitely yes.
Cans of Checkerspot Brewery’s “Bird is the Word” Kölsch-style beer with a Ravens-themed label. The brewery is a stone’s throw from M&T Bank Stadium.
Is Lamar Jackson sparking an economic renaissance in Baltimore? Probably not.
Football fans will spend a lot of money around the Ravens playoff game Sunday, but sports economists say the overall effect on Baltimore’s economy will be negligible.
A downtown office building owned by Peter Angelos, left, owes a sizable water bill. The building, however, is mostly vacant. The owner of the tower next door, right, says his basement is flooding with 10 gallons of water every minute. There could be a large water leak in downtown Baltimore.
If Baltimore is fixing its water billing, why does the Angelos family owe $12.3 million?
The Baltimore Department of Public Works claimed a mostly vacant office tower in downtown Baltimore used more water than any other property owner in the city.
Sinclair Broadcast Group President and CEO David Smith testifies before the legislature’s Joint Government Oversight Committee meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, in this 2007 file photo.
New Baltimore Sun owner on tape bashing city schools, local politicians and more
With his immense media holdings, Smith is one of the most influential figures in American journalism. Yet he rarely gives interviews, in part because of the contempt he feels toward mainstream media
The current newsroom of The Baltimore Sun is located in St. Paul Plaza. (Dylan Segelbaum/The Baltimore Banner)
New Baltimore Sun owner insults staff in meeting, says paper should mimic Fox45
Baltimore businessman David Smith told Sun staff he had not been a regular newspaper reader for decades.
This is a photo of Hooters, which originally came to Harborplace in 1990, and is suing its landlord over deteriorating conditions at the mall-like pavilions.
Hooters is suing Harborplace
Hooters, which originally came to Harborplace in 1990, is the longest-tenured restaurant at the festival marketplace in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
The office of Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman released a State of the Economy report, which found the state’s economy has been growing much slower than the rest of the country’s.
Help wanted: Maryland’s stagnant economy needs more workers
The state now has a labor shortage, with more than three jobs available for every resident seeking work.
The Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor has been losing money. Mayor Brandon Scott has floated the idea of selling, but any transaction would be complicated.
No, Baltimore can’t just sell the Hilton Inner Harbor because it’s losing money
Baltimore is effectively stuck pumping millions of dollars into the Inner Harbor hotel and praying that its tourism industry takes off.
A photo of a warehouse in Baltimore County advertising industrial space for lease.
The Baltimore region needs more warehouses, but no, please not here
Few areas are poised to reap the benefits — and suffer the growing pains — of the country’s modern logistics industry like Baltimore. But where should the warehouses go?
Harborplace renderings show massive residential units envisioned by the developer.
Are the Harborplace designs that bad? Or are architects just haters?
There are a lot of opinions about the proposed redevelopment of Baltimore's Harborplace, but one group has consistently criticized the plans.
MCB Real Estate released renderings of a redeveloped Harborplace on Oct. 30, 2023 that show new buildings with residential units and new park spaces.
City panel says Baltimore isn’t rushing the Harborplace redevelopment
No, the city of Baltimore is not rushing the redevelopment of Harborplace. That’s what the Baltimore Planning Commission decided Thursday night after an hours-long hearing.
The Baltimore Hilton hotel was built with the wrong kind of piping, a lawsuit alleges, and needs millions to replace it.
Baltimore Hilton hotel faces ‘catastrophic structural failures’ if pipes aren’t fixed
The city-owned hotel needs $16.1 million in repairs, according to a lawsuit settled earlier this year.
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