Howard Street’s fallen arches evoke few cries of nostalgia 
BY: Alexander Pyles
POSTED: April 22, 2012
Tags: arches, Baltimore, baltimore development corp., Development, downtown partnership, howard street, Kirby Fowler, lexington street, maryland, maryland transit administration, renewal
The distinctive archways that lined Howard Street and overlooked the light rail tracks in downtown Baltimore are gone, but few tears are being shed for the quirky 1980s-era street decorations. “They were just a very dated feature,” said Kirby Fowler, president of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore. “They suggested … Baltimore wasn’t moving forward.” The [...]
BCCC ends negotiations over Inner Harbor campus
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: April 18, 2012
Tags: baltimore city community college, bard building, board of trustees, campus, community college, Development, exelon, Harbor Point, holacaust memorial, Inner Harbor, The Cordish Cos.
Negotiations with developer David Cordish to redevelop the Inner Harbor campus of the Baltimore City Community College — one of the city’s prime real estate parcels — have come to a halt because Cordish said his company declined to consider relocating the Holocaust Memorial at the site. The college’s Board of Trustee had been in [...]
Home building slows, permits hit three-and-a-half-year high
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 17, 2012
Tags: apartments, builder confidence, builders, commerce department, construction, growth, housing market, National Association of Home Builders, permits, prices, Recession, sales
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WASHINGTON — U.S. builders requested the most permits in March for single-family homes and apartments in 3½ years, suggesting that many expect the housing market to improve over the next year. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that permits, a gauge of future construction, rose 4.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 747,000 in March. [...]
New life for old Hampden mill
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: April 16, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, David F. Tufaro, Development, hampden, housing, jones falls, maryland, mill, Terra Nova Ventures LLC, union mill
As the lazy waters of the Jones Falls drift nearby, the hum of activity at Chestnut Avenue and Falls Road has created a clash of cultures as part of the ongoing $43 million, mixed-use redevelopment of a historic former mill site in Hampden. The 139-year-old former cotton mill and two other buildings will soon morph [...]
D.C. leaders consider easing height restrictions
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 13, 2012
Tags: anacostia, buildings, capitol, commercial real estate, d.c. chamber of commerce, del. eleanor holmes norton, Development, height restrictions, mayor vincent gray, National Register of Historic Places, pierre l'enfant, preservationists, rep. darrell issa, smart growth, thomas jefferson, washington d.c., washington monument
WASHINGTON — A leading House Republican is talking to District of Columbia leaders about easing the height restrictions that have limited buildings in the nation’s capital to about 12 stories for more than a century. Advocates say easing the restrictions only slightly could open up new opportunities for commercial real estate developers and accommodate the [...]
Convention Center emerges a winner
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: April 12, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, convention center, expansion, General Assembly, hotel, legislation, legislative review, O'Malley
ANNAPOLIS — The boomerang politics of a small, but key, funding request for planning and design work for the Baltimore Convention Center project ended in victory for city legislators with hours to go in the 2012 General Assembly session. The $2.5 million state commitment for the preliminary work, which had been abruptly eliminated as recently [...]
D.C.’s historic Howard Theatre opens new chapter
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 12, 2012
Tags: apollo theatre, black broadway, blue note entertainment, boyz ii men, chaka khan, howard theatre, performance space, smokey robinson, U street
WASHINGTON — Before there was the Apollo in Harlem, there was the Howard Theatre in the nation’s capital. The nearly 102-year-old Howard officially lifts its curtain once again Thursday for a reopening gala after a $29 million renovation that began in 2010. Smokey Robinson, Savion Glover and Madeleine Peyroux will perform, along with Chaka Khan, [...]
A new era at Uplands
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: April 5, 2012
Tags: apartments, bozzuto homes, Department of Housing and Community Development, Development, Edmondson Village, Pennrose Properties LLC, u..s district court, u.s. department of housing and urban development, Uplands Apartments
This week, Wilbert Blander started packing his apartment for a short move back to the future in West Baltimore. The 78-year-old retired warehouse worker will return to a place that he once lived, often in fear for his life, for several years. Only now, the Uplands is in the early phases of becoming a cleaned [...]
Anthropologie, Lululemon coming to Harbor East
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 4, 2012
Tags: anthropologie, Baltimore, harbor east, j. crew, lululemon athletica, mac cosmetics, Retail, shopping, store, women's clothing
Harbor East announced that four new retailers will open stores by late summer in the trendy downtown Baltimore neighborhood. Totaling more than 21,000 square feet, they are: Anthropologie, a women’s clothing, accessories and home decor store, occupying 9,581 square feet at 280 International Drive in the Four Seasons Hotel; J. Crew, a men’s and women’s [...]
Row homes planned for Obrycki’s parking lot
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: April 2, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Development, Fells Point, Fells Prospect Community Association, larry silverstein, maryland, Merchant Point, obrycki's, row homes, union box co.
A local developer is planning to break ground this year on a small row house community on the parking lot of the closed Obrycki’s restaurant in upper Fells Point. The development, to be called Merchant’s Square, will hold 17 row homes and will be modeled after a similar townhouse development being built about six blocks [...]
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