Growth and development

The Baltimore County Council voted 5-1, with one member absent, to pass a measure that seeks to ease school overcrowding, overriding a veto by County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr., a Democrat.

Crowd Fund Baltimore, the first crowdfunding platform for Maryland small businesses, kicked off in February and has already helped a Montgomery County Black-owned wine company and a Venezuelan restaurant in Baltimore raise money for expansion plans.

Gov. Wes Moore and other officials gathered Friday to celebrate a decision to build a light rail line to connect East and West Baltimore. But officials must decide whether to build a tunnel under downtown and identify funds to cover the $3 billion to $7 billion price tag.

In court documents filed on April 15 but not previously available in Baltimore Circuit Court, Patriot Steel Fabrication Inc., a firm based in Church Creek, Dorchester County, asserts that Chasen Cos. owes the business more than $915,000.

The Maryland Department of Transportation wants to turn a parking lot near the Reisterstown Metro station into apartments, offices and retail shops.

City officials and their lawyers claim global beverage giants PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, along with six other companies, used deceptive business practices and created a public nuisance, while causing harm to people’s health and the environment, according to a lawsuit filed late last week.

Brandon Chasen’s development company is dialing back its national expansion plans and slowing its pace in Baltimore, too.

Hooters, a Harborplace institution, closed with little warning this week despite being the longest-tenured restaurant in the Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

A focus on the customer and the community is helping new Belair Road businesses overcome long-standing obstacles.

State agencies and the Morgan Park Improvement Association hosted a dedication ceremony on Wednesday to unveil a new historical marker along East Cold Spring Lane that commemorates the founding of Morgan Park.

Reopening the federal channel will restore normal shipping traffic, boost Baltimore’s economy and help thousands of jobs impacted by the disaster.

The collaboration supports a variety of small businesses through networking, while also promoting local musicians and artists.

A hamlet in Baltimore County is so quiet it is actually called Boring. And neighbors are campaigning to keep it that way, fighting a zoning change that would turn their firehouse and bingo hall into a manufacturing facility.

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.