Mixed use development eyed for Cambridge port

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 2, 2012
Tags: cambridge, cambridge economic development, commercial, developer, franklin street, hyatt hotel, mixed-use, public, redevelopment, residential, sailwinds park

CAMBRIDGE — Cambridge officials say a mixed-use redevelopment is planned for the city’s waterfront. A mixture of commercial, public and possibly some residential properties is being considered for the port property at Sailwinds Park along Franklin Street. The property is owned by the state and leased by the city. The city and state have agreed [...]

Builders step up spending for fifth straight month

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 1, 2012
Tags: apartments, commerce department, construction, government spending, home construction, homebuilders, private builders, residential, residential construction, sales

WASHINGTON — Builders increased their spending in December for the fifth consecutive month, ending a weak construction year on a hopeful note. Spending on construction projects rose 1.5 percent in December after a revised 0.4 percent gain in November, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That pushed spending to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $816.4 [...]

Realities of Real Estate: Seeking the ‘new normal’ in residential real estate

BY: Bob and Donna McWilliams
POSTED: October 14, 2011
Tags: bob and donna mcwilliams, crisis, dow jones, housing, lehman brothers, norm, realities of real estate, residential, subprime mortgage

We’ve been writing a real estate column for over three years now. Our first piece hit the papers on Sept. 18, 2008. Just three days earlier, the subprime mortgage crisis forced Lehman Brothers to file for Chapter 11. A few days later, on Sept. 29, 2008, the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced its largest drop [...]

Historic Howard County property will stay untouched

BY: Nicholas Sohr
POSTED: September 13, 2011
Tags: Doughoregan Manor property, historic, Howard County, ken ulman, maryland, property, residential

Ringed by crowded residential developments in central Howard County, much of what remains of the nearly 300-year-old Doughoregan Manor property will stay untouched. The county settled a preservation deal this month with the owners of the property, descendants of founding father Charles Carroll of Carrollton, to leave 500 acres of fields and forests undeveloped. That [...]

A real shocker: U.S. energy use leveling off

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 7, 2011
Tags: decline, dvd, Energy, leveling off, residential, united states, use

American homes are more cluttered than ever with devices, and they all need power: Cellphones and iPads that have to be charged, DVRs that run all hours, TVs that light up in high definition. But something shocking is happening to demand for electricity in the Age of the Gadget: It’s leveling off. Over the next [...]

Pigtown, Penn. Ave. developments approved by Board of Estimates

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: August 31, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, baltimore development corp., board of estimates, developers, historic pigtown development II llc, jeffrey gould, negro basketball league, neil katz, pennsylvania avenue, pigtown, residential, Retail, sphinx club complex llc, washington boulevard
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The Baltimore Development Corp. said Wednesday it received Board of Estimates approval for two land disposition agreements that will bring separate development projects to areas of Pennsylvania Avenue and Pigtown. In the former, Sphinx Club Complex LLC will acquire five contiguous properties in the 2000 block of Pennsylvania Avenue for a mixed-use project that will [...]

Realities of Real Estate: Down on the farm

BY: Bob and Donna McWilliams
POSTED: August 19, 2011
Tags: agriculture, bob mcwilliams, commercial, donna mcwilliams, farm, farming, housing, land, mortgage, real estate weekly, realities of real estate, residential

In this column, we focus almost exclusively on residential real estate, since the housing market affects all of us, and this is the category where we do business. But, real estate can come in many other forms. There are a number of ways to define the different types of real estate. In the broadest sense, [...]

June construction spending up slightly

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: August 1, 2011
Tags: builders, commerce department, commercial, construction, increase, june, residential, spending

WASHINGTON — Builders began work on more office buildings, shopping centers and hotels in June, pushing construction spending higher for a third straight month. But even with the gains, activity remains at depressed levels. Construction spending rose 0.2 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $772.3 billion, the Commerce Department reported Monday. [...]

Construction numbers on the rise thanks to education

BY: Tania Anderson
POSTED: December 3, 2010
Tags: construction, mcgraw-hill construction, office buildings, Real Estate, residential
Comments: 1

Education projects are getting high marks from construction businesses in the Baltimore-Towson area. That’s because the region posted $150.3 million worth of future non-residential construction, up nearly 50 percent this October compared with the same month in 2009, according to McGraw-Hill Construction. And much of that growth has been driven by higher education and K-12 [...]

Construction spending rises 0.7 percent in October

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: December 1, 2010
Tags: commerce department, construction, residential

WASHINGTON — Construction spending rose for the second straight month in October, pushed up by growth in residential building and government projects. Construction spending increased 0.7 percent in October, matching the September gain, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. It marked the first time that construction activity has risen for two straight months since March and [...]