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Cars drive past Horseshoe Casino on Russell Street in South Baltimore on Thursday, October 17, 2024.
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.
Celeste Amato and Steve Strickland, who work in Mayor Brandon Scott's administration, outside of Baltimore’s City Hall after getting married on Nov. 9, 2024.
This City Hall love story proves romance can happen anywhere
A lucky few discover love knee-deep in the crisis of a massive water main break in the middle of the woods.
Hosanna Smith, 42, walks her dog, Dundie, 5, in her neighborhood on Nov. 22 2024 in Detroit, Mich. Smith bought her home in 2018 using the Detroit Land Bank Authority’s “Rehabbed and Ready” program.
A land bank helped with Detroit’s vacants, but Baltimore leaders are unconvinced
Detroit officials found Baltimore’s response to a land bank proposal “unfortunate” and lacking context.
The Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts has removed CEO Rachel Graham after just seven months on the job.
BOPA votes to oust CEO as arts group faces financial peril
Graham’s departure is “effective immediately,” BOPA interim Chair and CEO Robyn Murphy said at the close of a special meeting Wednesday. Murphy was temporarily appointed to both roles while the board searches for new leadership.
8 Maryland experiences to gift for the holidays
Experiences can offer the perfect solution for those friends and relatives who claim they don’t need any more stuff.
Rockland Run resident Diana Evans looks up at the damaged ceiling above her bed. She has had to deal with water coming through the ceiling in her first floor condo multiple times in the past couple of years.
A Baltimore County complex shows how it’s getting more expensive to own a condo
In the midst of a dispute over rising fees, some say more laws and resources could alleviate the strain on common ownership communities.
Pam Macapagal pictured in her shelter moments after she was told she'd no longer be evicted.
As Baltimore sweeps encampments, some residents feel discarded too
At one Baltimore encampment, leaving can be more challenging than staying.
David Smith is the sole funder of the group working to shrink city council.
David Smith wanted to cut Baltimore City Council. He united it instead.
“It was kind of a gift that David Smith and the proponents of the bill gave this city,” said Zac Blanchard, who unseated a Smith-backed candidate in May.
Voters cast their ballots for the 2024 general election at Wise High School in Upper Marlboro.
4 things we learned from election night results in Maryland
Being popular doesn’t guarantee victory, and other lessons from Tuesdays election results.
Mondawmin is one of 120 neighborhoods where buyers can use an expanded Live Baltimore grant program to help pay for a home.
Hey, Baltimore renters: You could get up to $20,000 to buy a home
Two grants are offered: up to $10,000 to purchase a home or up to $20,000 to purchase and renovate a home.
Phyllis Wert, a former owner Chesapeake Wine Company, urges voters to reject the MCB Real Estate ballot measure to add residences to Harborplace at the Inner Harbor.
Harborplace developer’s former tenants urge vote against ballot question
The tenants said MCB Real Estate was a subpar landlord that drove down the shopping center’s value.
Angela Alsobrooks (center), Maryland’s Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, is endorsed by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at a gun violence prevention event at the Kentland Community Center in June.
The Harris and Alsobrooks friendship may matter now more than ever
As the general election draws near, Kamala Harris and Angela Alsobrooks are experiencing a different kind of intimacy as their friendship may matter now more than ever.
City Council is moving after state lawmakers earlier this year approved a law allowing higher tax rates on vacant properties.
Baltimore could begin taxing vacant properties more by July 2026
Owners of vacant properties would eventually pay a tax rate four times that of typical properties.
Cora Williams returns to her apartment in the Bellevieu Manchester apartments. She is one of several city tenants suing their landlord and property manager over their failure to procure a rental license, arguing that it was intentional fraud.
Tenants ask court if unlicensed landlords, property managers are committing fraud
A win on fraud and deceit would be a "huge win" for tenants, attorneys for the case said.
A man on a bike wearing a helmet waits outside of a glass shelter at an above ground train station.
Maryland’s transportation, housing agencies teaming up to incentivize new homes
The state wants to build fewer parking lots and more mixed-use developments on the 300 acres it owns within a half-mile of transit stations.
BOPA’s board voted Wednesday to lay off an undisclosed number of staff.
Baltimore cancels contract with BOPA after weeks of turmoil
BOPA CEO Rachel Graham said the arts council is still planning to put on a fireworks display for New Year’s Eve and to organize a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.
Mayor Brandon Scott speaks outside of vacant homes on West Saratoga street during a press conference hosted by Build One Baltimore on February 16, 2023.
9 Baltimore groups to team up on vacant housing with $4M from JPMorgan Chase
Nine Baltimore nonprofits will receive a cut of a $4 million commitment from JPMorgan Chase.
Artscape, BOPA’s marquee event, could be farmed out to another organization, according to a plan put forward by senior City Hall officials last year.
Confidential 2023 memo outlines how Baltimore could cut ties with BOPA
The detailed plan would redirect all money the city gives the nonprofit to a wing of the mayor’s office and other organizations to put on BOPA’s signature events.
People enjoy downtown Detroit, Mich. on Sept. 19, 2024.
JPMorgan Chase helped revive Detroit. Now they’re betting big on Baltimore.
Those familiar with the bank’s work said JPMorgan Chase can help Baltimore fill its empty storefronts, reduce its vacant housing surplus and bring more good-paying jobs to city residents — all crucial to its financial sustainability.
The view from the third floor of one of Rising Housing’s properties in West Baltimore that will become a commercialized space called Java and Joists, as seen on Tuesday, April 9, 2024.
Gov. Moore wants to eliminate 5,000 vacant Baltimore homes in 5 years
The executive order comes about 10 months after Mayor Brandon Scott and community partners rolled out a comprehensive strategy designed to abate the city’s vacant housing epidemic
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