Board of Estimates – Online Extra; Updated 10:40 A.M. 

Posted: 1:00 am Tue, December 5, 2000
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Approving the sale of one parcel on Baltimore's east side and one on the west side, both for major developments, highlighted this morning's action by the city's Board of Estimates.The east side property, the 900 block of East Fayette Street, will be turned into a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution center for Chesapeake Advertising, a specialty printing company. The parcel on the city's west side, 231 N. Eutaw St., will be developed by Milt Rosenbaum, former head of the West Side Merchants Association, into a 20,000-square-foot, two-story retail complex.Other items of note include spending $15,000 for a portrait of former mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, which will be added to the gallery of Baltimore mayors in the Board of Estimates meeting room in City Hall, and fixing the city's living wage at $8.20 per hour. The board also approved a resolution that allows a financing agreement with Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse to move forward, so the construction firm may