Growth and development

West Baltimore residents talk about what they’d like to see in Poppleton, now that the city is terminating its agreement with a New York developer that has struggled to build there.

The Baltimore County Council has passed a measure that would make it harder for developers to build new housing in communities with crowded schools. But county school officials want to have more input, and the county executive worries it may have a negative impact on the county’s moral and legal obligations to address attainable housing.

The $8.45 million commitment will support commercial corridors, small businesses and rehabilitating vacant homes.

The Baltimore County Council on Monday passed a contentious measure designed to reduce overcrowding in schools by adding an approval process for developers who want to build new housing.

Baltimore City is ending developer La Cité’s controversial, nearly two-decade-old agreement to rebuild swaths of the long-neglected Poppleton neighborhood.

The Mondawmin area and its mall has struggled with outbursts of violence and closures of high-profile businesses, such as Target in 2018.

Seven Black-owned businesses supported by the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore are set to open next month at the struggling and soon-to-be-reimagined Inner Harbor shopping center.

Overcrowded schools can mean students are sometimes eating lunch closer to breakfast time, having their gym class in homeroom, or walking long distances to outside trailers. Sometimes, the school needs to hold an assembly two or three times so everyone can attend.

A preservationist developer wanted to modernize an old 25-bedroom hotel in Mount Vernon. Now, the property sits with a listing price at $1.6 million.

Baltimore County Council member David Marks says a critic of his approach to reforming the county Planning Board should participate in the council’s reform effort.

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.

Harborplace has a history, and young people are OK with writing a new one.

Gov. Wes Moore on Tuesday thanked the Unified Command and other officials for a quick and decisive response to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. But the mission is far from complete, he said.

Baltimore longshoremen held a celebratory picnic at a park in Essex on Sunday to mark progress in reopening the Port of Baltimore. The refloating and move of the Dali, the container ship that crashed into the Key Bridge on March 26, will allow the port to get back to full strength.

Demolition of Baltimore City Community College’s downtown Bard Building is scheduled for completion in early September.

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.

Under Armour is preparing to layoff an unspecified number of employees following a drop in sales for North America, the Baltimore-based company’s largest market.

A measure to change the selection process for Baltimore County's Planning Board might have less to do with concerns about planning generally and more to do with opposition to mixed-use development that would include affordable housing, says a county resident who writes about law and local government issues.

The Pentagon has awarded the Applied Physics Laboratory $12 billion over the past decade, making Hopkins the largest university recipient of Defense Department money.

Once rehabilitated, the Howard Street freight rail tunnel will be a game changer for the Port of Baltimore.