Growth and development

Howard County’s population growth showed signs of rebounding in 2024, after slowing nearly every year since 2016.

Baltimore City gained population for the first time since 2014, census data released Thursday shows.

Anne Arundel County eclipsed 600,000 residents in 2024, with a slight year-over-year population increase driven by births.

Baltimore County reversed three consecutive years of population decline, thanks in large part to new immigrants.

Charm City has enough problems to overcome, and self-inflicted ones like poor permitting only make it more difficult.

The Hampton National Historic Site near Towson tells the history of slavery at a former plantation site in Baltimore County. Some worry that the Trump administration's push to revise history will erase that.

City housing cancelled New York-based La Cité’s development rights. Turns out, it didn’t really matter.

“Everyone has a plaza story,” one of the developers said. “And we want to bring that back.”

A Baltimore County councilman wants to make it harder for developers to build in parts of the county outside of the Urban-Rural Demarcation Line.

Redevelopment of Poe Homes in West Baltimore, and other distressed communities across the region, could slow if federal housing grants and programs end.

Howard County Councilwoman Deb Jung has proposed a zoning change that would block W.R. Grace’s proposal for a pilot plastic recycling plant at its Columbia headquarters. Opponents applaud the effort, but some worry that it amounts to “spot zoning.”

Hundreds of federal workers packed a job fair in Howard County Tuesday night to rehearse in mock interviews, pose for professional headshots and adapt their often lengthy resumes for the private sector.

Construction company Whiting-Turner will move its headquarters within Baltimore County to the campus of Goucher College, where it will have a hub for career-building.

The Trump administration’s targeting of DEI initiatives has resulted in consultants losing clients and needing to pivot.

The Port of Baltimore had one of its strongest years, despite the Key Bridge disaster, but it lost its top ranking for car imports to Georgia’s Port of Brunswick.

The president and CEO of the Baltimore Development Corp. will step down this summer after six years at the helm.

Documents filed in a lawsuit show that New York developer La Cité has made millions of dollars from a struggling project in West Baltimore’s Poppleton neighborhood.

Marylanders are leaning into DEI as the term itself is being weaponized and its initiatives have become a target of the Donald Trump administration.

A Baltimore developer said he has purchased a warehouse property directly across the street from the old Under Armour headquarters.