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Growth and development

A construction worker drives a backhoe past the Berkleigh luxury apartment complex in the Greenleigh community of Middle River.
Eastern Baltimore County is changing. Will its representation?
The Baltimore County Council is expanding from seven districts to nine in 2026, after voters approved the change last fall. What that will look like is unclear.
La Cite had been planning to build an age-restricted apartment building on this lot until it lost the development rights. Photographed in the Poppleton neighborhood of Baltimore on February 26, 2025
The city sold this land for $40. With nothing built, investor wants to cash out.
The city created this parcel as part of the ambitious — now failed — plan to turn the West Baltimore neighborhood of Poppleton into a dense, upscale community.
Gov. Wes Moore smiles as he departs a Central Japan Railway Company SCMAGLEV train Saturday, April 12, 2025. "Wow" is how he described the experience, a 311 MPH futuristic train ride.
Gov. Wes Moore kicks off Asia trade trip with maglev train ride: ‘This is the future’
Moore needed one word to summarize the experience: “Wow.”

Philanthropy and nonprofits

The Jhpiego headquarters in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore. The organization began cutting jobs Thursday.
Johns Hopkins aid groups to lay off more than 2,000 amid Trump cuts
Jhpiego and the Center for Communication Programs, global aid groups affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, have begun layoffs and a reorganization as millions in federal funding from USAID is cut off.
1199SEIU Senior Policy Analyst Loraine Arikat speaks during a 2023 kickoff event for With Us for Us, a coalition seeking to increase what nonprofits pay the city each year for services.
A coalition is trying to get Baltimore’s biggest nonprofits to pay the city more
Advocates are backing a City Council bill that would create a task force to help renegotiate Baltimore's PILOT with nonprofits.
An open house event for the "Concept House" near Towson in November 2024.
The house that Second Chance built — for its founder
Second Chance, a nonprofit, helped transform its founder Mark Foster’s Baltimore County $375,000 property, and then bought it from him for $1.5 million.

Real estate

For sale: Luxurious home with resort-style amenities in West Friendship
This West Friendship home offers six bedrooms, eight bathrooms and nearly 7,500 square feet of comfortable living space.
For sale: Extraordinary 3-acre estate in Ruxton
The Baltimore County home features stunning interiors with custom finishes and a beautiful outdoor oasis.
For sale: Spacious Highland home offers luxury and community allure
This six-bedroom, five-bathroom home for sale in Highland features beautiful spaces inside and out.

Harborplace

A conceptual drawing of the proposed Harborplace plans showed a potential aerial view of the Inner Harbor on a sunny day.
Iconic, but Gen X: Are Harborplace’s pavilions worth a preservation fight?
When voters decided to allow residential buildings in the Inner Harbor, they also greenlit an ambitious redevelopment plan that will start with the demolition of the Harborplace pavilions, which are not quite historical enough for preservation.
Voters on Tuesday approved a plan to allow residential development at Harborplace. That’s not the end of the story.
Why the fight over Baltimore’s Inner Harbor could drag on for years
A day after voters approved a crucial ballot question for the overhaul of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, opponents reiterated their plans to keep fighting.
Attendants of a press conference held by MCB Real Estate stand by an illustration of revealed design plans for the upcoming Harborplace development, at the Light Street pavilion on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023 in Baltimore, MD.
Harborplace vote favors residential development in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

Jobs and careers

Science and medicine

Pikesville resident Jill Smokler, who created the popular parenting site Scary Mommy, faces a terminal brain cancer diagnosis.
Scary Mommy creator Jill Smokler faces brain cancer with warmth and wit
When Jill Smokler awoke at Johns Hopkins Hospital last year, her skull sealed shut with a jagged seam of staples, her first response was wry laughter.
Comet SWAN25F is visible across the star field as a bright green dot with a faint tail.
Comet visible in Maryland this weekend: ‘Once every couple years event’
To take a look at the comet yourself, you’ll want to head outside just before dawn and look toward the northeast horizon.
The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, Md. on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
State’s maximum-security psychiatric hospital gets failure warning
Clifton T. Perkins, the state-run maximum security hospital for those charged with crimes, was warned to improve or risk losing its accreditation.
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