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Growth and development

    A vacant property notice sits on the marble steps of a West Baltimore home located in the Penn-North neighborhood and owned by an ABC Capital investor.
    Baltimore leaders propose ‘landmark’ $8 billion plan to confront vacant housing
    The money would be put toward at least 35,700 properties across Baltimore, including in neighborhoods that typically don’t see much government investment.
    K.T. Ramesh, interim co-director of Johns Hopkins University’s new data science and translation institute, speaks as fellow co-Director Rama Chellappa listens via video chat at the University’s Homewood campus on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023.
    Inside Johns Hopkins University’s plan to make Baltimore a national hub for artificial intelligence
    Johns Hopkins University is building a Data Science and AI Institute on the Homewood campus, with the goal of positioning Baltimore as the nation’s foremost destination for data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
    File photo of the Inner Harbor and downtown Baltimore as seen from the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront hotel.
    Baltimore’s economy is growing faster than almost anywhere else in Maryland
    Baltimore City has one of the fastest growing large economies in the country, according to newly released data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
    MCB Real Estate released renderings of a redeveloped Harborplace on Oct. 30, 2023, that show new buildings with residential units and park spaces.
    Baltimore planning board delays Harborplace vote, citing livestream failure
    The panel was due to vote on three bills that aim to change zoning and street design around the Inner Harbor.
    A rendering of the the Exchange, which will open in the ground floor of Rye Street Market in Baltimore Peninsula. It's envisioned as a marketplace for small and local businesses to set up shop.
    Baltimore Peninsula team unveils city’s next marketplace
    The development team said the marketplace is meant to provide an accelerator space for small businesses, especially those owned by women and people of color. Ideally, vendors will use the space as a launching pad before venturing into bigger spaces.
    Scene of the community garden located next to Under Armour in Locust Point. (Photo courtesy of Dave Arndt)
    Evicted by Under Armour, Locust Point Community Garden prepares to relocate in December
    Locust Point Community Garden has until Dec. 15 to vacate the plot of land owned by Under Armour. Baltimore City officials and the Locust Point Civic Association are clearing a portion of Latrobe Park so the program can continue.
    By Thursday afternoon, the city's transportation department had fixed the Orleans Street sign with the correct spelling.
    Letters: We need protection from Orleans Street
    Stretches of Orleans Street block pedestrian access and are a threat to neighborhood children, Fatima Wilkerson, a Southeast Baltimore resident and community activist, says.
    MCB Real Estate released renderings of a redeveloped Harborplace on Oct. 30, 2023.
    Commentary: Harborplace plan can spark reenvisioned downtown waterfront
    The Harborplace redevelopment plan can set Baltimore on a course for further development to create a more welcoming downtown waterfront area, Steve Ziger, a partner with Ziger|Snead Architects, says.
    Linda Ostovitz chairs the Howard County Chamber of Commerce.
    Commentary: Rent control measures would be the wrong choice for Howard County
    Rent control measures under consideration in Howard County aren’t the right approach for making housing there more affordable, Linda Ostovitz, who chairs the county’s Chamber of Commerce, says.
    Krystal Gonzalez, who lost her 18-year-old daughter, Aaliyah Gonzalez, in the Brooklyn Day mass shooting, pauses during remarks at a City Council hearing Sept. 13.
    Letters: Millions for Harborplace, but Baltimore’s biggest needs unmet
    The millions planned for Harborplace redevelopment will do nothing to address Baltimore’s greatest needs, says Krystal Gonzalez, whose daughter was shot and killed at a Baltimore-area block party.
    The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore is promoting a Healthy Harbor in Baltimore took a test swim in the waters in September. The group is promoting making the harbor swimmable by 2024.
    Is Baltimore’s harbor swimmable? Advocates take the plunge to prove it
    More than 13 years after the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore set out to make the city’s harbor swimmable, the coalition of public and private partners is planning a public swim event called “Harbor Splash” in 2024.
    MCB Real Estate wants to tear down the Harborplace pavillions and replace them with a large-scale mixed-use development, including two residential towers, offices, retail, a redesigned road network and a park.
    City residents have plenty of questions about proposed Harborplace overhaul
    P. David Bramble and other members of MCB Real Estate fielded questions about their plans to overhaul Harborplace from a gathering of about 200 residents in Federal Hill on Monday night.
    MCB Real Estate released renderings of a redeveloped Harborplace on Oct. 30 that show new buildings with residential units and new park spaces.
    I’m a veteran of Harborplace. I’m not sure the new designs are for me.
    If you didn’t grow up here, those old, faded green buildings at Pratt and Light streets might seem useless, an empty shell of yesteryear. But back in the day, they were the town square.
    MCB Real Estate released renderings of a redeveloped Harborplace on Oct. 30 that show new buildings and park spaces.
    ‘Eyesore’ or a ‘much-needed face-lift’? What readers think of the Harborplace redesign
    The design includes a large new housing development with two towers. Readers are not feeling it.
    Janet Marie Smith, a key figure in the design and development of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, is opening a Baltimore office for her development company.
    Janet Marie Smith, a key figure in Camden Yards development, opening Baltimore office for design firm
    The Baltimore office is for the Canopy Team, the planning and development firm specializing in the design of professional sports venues and their neighborhood surroundings she founded in Los Angeles.
    MCB Real Estate released renderings on Oct. 30 of a redeveloped Harborplace that show new buildings with residential units and new park spaces.
    5 things we noticed about the plans to overhaul Harborplace
    Some of what’s new is obvious, like the two residential towers, but here are five more big changes we noticed in the plans.
    Troy A. LeMaile-Stovall, CEO of Columbia-based TEDCO.
    Troy Lemaile-Stovall leading efforts to invest in Maryland tech companies
    Troy A. LeMaile-Stovall, CEO of TEDCO, believes that the key to Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies is through inclusive entrepreneurial innovation.
    Harborplace renderings show massive residential units envisioned by the developer.
    Harborplace developer pitches 900 residential units, rooftop park at Inner Harbor
    MCB Real Estate wants to rezone the Inner Harbor to allow for residential development.
    Digital rendering for the upcoming Mayor's Office of Cable and Communications (MOCC) headquarters, which will also be the new home of CharmTV.
    CharmTV to move headquarters to Penn North, joining Baltimore’s Black Arts District
    Eight city-owned vacant lots in West Baltimore will soon be converted into a sprawling, 20,000-square-foot hub for artists and creatives in Baltimore.
    Exterior of Topgolf in South Baltimore on 10/7/22.
    South Baltimore Topgolf property for sale, but high-end driving range will remain
    The facility has 19 years remaining on its initial 20-year lease.
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