Gehry offers changes in Eisenhower Memorial design
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 15, 2012
Tags: architect frank gehry, d.c., Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, Eisenhower Memorial design, memorial, national mall, sculpture, washington
WASHINGTON — Architect Frank Gehry and his design team proposed changes Tuesday to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial planned for a site near the National Mall after hearing complaints from Ike’s family for months. The family had complained the design focuses too much on Eisenhower’s humble Kansas roots, rather than his accomplishments. Members of the [...]
Hagerstown aims for usable new ballpark by 2015
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 15, 2012
Tags: hagerstown, hagerstown city council, Hagerstown Suns, mayor robert bruchey, minor league baseball, municipal stadium, stadium, washington county, washington nationals, winchester
HAGERSTOWN — The city of Hagerstown is pushing to have a downtown minor-league baseball stadium built by the 2015 season. Mayor Robert Bruchey tells the Herald-Mail of Hagerstown that he wants to proceed with formal architectural designs despite the lack of a funding commitment from the state and a long-term contract with the Hagerstown Suns. [...]
Realities of Real Estate: Motivation matters in buying, selling homes 
BY: Bob and Donna McWilliams
POSTED: May 11, 2012
Tags: bob mcwilliams, buying, donna mcwilliams, home, maryland, mortgage, Real Estate, realities of real estate, selling
Buyers and sellers of real estate don’t all have the same degree of motivation. Generally, we see three different types of customers. First, there are those who have an urgent need to buy or sell. Because of job change, financial difficulties, divorce or some other personal event, there are buyers and sellers who want to [...]
Real Estate Weekly – 5/11/12: Charles Village Pub celebrates reopening
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 11, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, charles villiage pub, Corporate Office Properties Trust, Enterprise Community Investment Inc., First Potomac, lease, maryland, real estate weekly, Rockville Corporate Center, Shady Grove Fertility Center, the bozzuto group, Wittenbach Business Systems Inc.
Charles Village Pub celebrates reopening The Charles Village Pub, at 19 W. Pennsylvania Ave. in Towson, held its grand reopening ceremony Thursday to celebrate its restoration from a devastating fire that destroyed the popular restaurant in January 2011. Owners Rick Bielski, and Eric and Melony Wagner were joined by Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz at [...]
Consumer watchdog weighs limits to mortgage fees
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 10, 2012
Tags: consumer, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Fees, loan, mortgage, overhaul, Real Estate, watchdog
WASHINGTON — The government’s consumer-finance watchdog is weighing an overhaul of the fees consumers pay to obtain mortgages. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Wednesday that it might ban origination fees that vary with the size of the loan, known as “origination points.” Lenders would charge the same flat fee for all loans. It also [...]
Late payments on mortgages fall in 1Q nationwide; Md.’s increase
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 9, 2012
Tags: delinquency, Economy, growth, hiring, home sales, homeowners, housing, housing market, late payments, loans, mortgage, standard & poor's/case-shiller home-price index, transunion, unemployment rate
LOS ANGELES — The percentage of U.S. homeowners behind on their mortgage payments dropped in the first three months of this year to the lowest level since 2009, according to a new report. Some 5.78 percent of the nation’s mortgage holders were behind on their payments by 60 days or more in the January-to-March quarter, credit [...]
A push to remake Oliver’s image
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: May 8, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, come home baltimore, community, Development, east baltimore, hoffman street, hopkins, neighborhood, north bond street, oliver, the wire
Freshly planted spring flowers and a large “Welcome Johns Hopkins Employees” sign at the corner of North Bond and Hoffman streets is a novel sight in Oliver, for decades one of the city’s most troubled and blighted neighborhoods on the east side. But it sums up the approach by a group of developers that recently [...]
Hillman: Superblock project is unfair
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: May 7, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, david h. hillman, Development, Finance and Economic Development Committee, harbor east, letter, Lexington Square Partners, maryland, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, pilot, Southern Management Corp., superblock, tax revenue, Taxation
A Baltimore developer has written a blistering letter to City Hall disputing proposed tax breaks for the $150 million Superblock project downtown. The May 1 letter from David H. Hillman, chairman and CEO of Southern Management Corp., to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the 14 members of the City Council, states that a plan to give [...]
Real Estate Weekly: 5/4/12
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 4, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, CFG Community Bank, downtown partnership, Federal Emergency Management Agency, harford county department of parks and recreation, maryland, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Northrop Grumman Corp., Potbelly Sandwich Works LLC, real estate weekly, Towson City Center
Dredged material used to create recreation area A newly unveiled recreation area in Havre de Grace is giving residents more opportunities to enjoy the outdoors while providing a use for sediment dredged from nearby boating channels. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Harford County Department of Parks and Recreation partnered on the Swan Harbor [...]
Realities of Real Estate: Is it better to rent or buy?
BY: Bob and Donna McWilliams
POSTED: May 4, 2012
Tags: buy, home, home ownership, housing, loan, market, mortgage, Multiple List System, Real Estate, realities of real estate, rent
These days, many people think that renting might be a better deal than making the leap to home ownership. Much of the decision is a function of your financial condition and overall ability to buy. For some, a poor credit rating or lack of cash on hand might put buying a home momentarily out of [...]
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