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(UPDATED, 9:15 p.m.) — The Baltimore City Council took a major toward subsidizing the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The council, on Monday evening, approved moving the so-called Fund the Trust Act to a final vote. The legislation raises city transfer ...

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Baltimore Development Corp. has hired a coordinator for its Opportunity Zone program, which provides federal tax incentives for investment in struggling communities.

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Seema Iyer, who oversees the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, discusses Baltimore, what the data she collects tells us about the city, and how the organization will help Charm City in the future.

Michelle Pourciau said before she became director of Baltimore’s Department of Transportation a year ago that the city didn’t have a comprehensive transportation plan. There’s now a baseline for a report in place, she said, during the Greater Baltimore Committee’s ...

  Ride share company Lyft is offering free trips to residents and commuters dealing with Charm City Circulator service interruptions on Thursday and Friday. Baltimore’s beleaguered fee free bus service stopped service Thursday on some routes and will experience significant ...

Howard County’s plan to reduce flooding in Ellicott City involving demolition of historic properties needs more analysis, according to a third-party review. Engineering firm Simpson Gumpertz & Heger reviewed the county’s five-year flood mitigation plan, an engineering study and alternate ...

The median sale price for homes in Maryland’s major metro areas reached their highest September level in the last decade. Median sale price for a home in the Baltimore region last month hit $270,000, according to data provided by MarketStats ...

Baltimore’s struggles with transportation are epic. Insurance firm Allstate recently released a report finding Baltimore motorists are the worst in the nation’s 200 largest cities. That ranking was based on factors such as the relatively paltry average of 3.8 years ...

A business incubator aimed at nurturing new firms in Dundalk is slated to celebrate its ceremonial opening as Community Development Week in Maryland begins. The Dundalk Renaissance Corp. and Community Development Network of Maryland will host the ribbon-cutting ceremony at ...

Baltimore’s office market showed strength in the third quarter despite a slowdown in leasing activity. Reports from various commercial real estate service firms found large move-ins bolstered recent results. The biggest of those moves include Johns Hopkins taking 177,940 square ...