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Park Heights Renaissance gets more city money
Baltimore’s spending board has approved a request from the city’s housing department to continue funding administration and operations at Park Heights Renaissance Inc., a nonprofit that opened in 2008 to redevelop the community in the northwest part of the city that includes Pimlico Race Track.
New restaurant in EBDI neighborhood comes … and goes
The roast pork, quesadillas and Havana Blast Shakes at what may have been the first restaurant to open in Baltimore’s Middle East neighborhood in 50 years are no more.
City seeks $100K consultant for casino funds
City planning officials say they will soon spend $100,000 to hire a consultant to write a master plan detailing how 16 targeted communities surrounding the Horseshoe Baltimore casino will spend an anticipated $17 million in gambling revenue this year and next.
Don’t diss the CBD, it won’t take it sitting down
Portraying downtown Baltimore’s commercial properties as second fiddle to the waterfront, as Harbor Point developer Michael Beatty did late last year in a sales prospectus for the 260,651-square-foot Thames Street Wharf, will result in a smackdown.
Harbor Point TIF bonds will be used as collateral
The controversial tax increment financing bonds, or TIFs, to be issued to Harbor Point developer Michael Beatty this winter will not directly fund public infrastructure at the $1 billion project as pledged by Beatty to the City Council last summer.
Metro area office leasing shows strength
A new report says the Baltimore metropolitan area had above-average growth last year, with an increase in payroll employment of 19,500 positions and a slight increase in rents for commercial and office leasing.
In city and county, year marked by fits and starts
Controversy and construction. Big plans and small steps. Creative financing. In 2013, the real estate and development scene in the city and Baltimore County saw a wave of fits and starts.
Executives announced for Horseshoe Casino
Four executives have been hired to help run the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, expected to open later this year.
Belvedere Square, made over
Jinji Fraser says she has grown up at Belvedere Square Market.
Baltimore appoints new fire chief
Baltimore will have a new fire chief beginning Jan. 22.
50-year-old Md. House gets makeover
Nearly five decades old, the Maryland House is set to reopen on the state’s main superhighway next month as a new, ultra-modern rest stop.
Shawe Rosenthal leases space at One South St.
The law firm Shawe Rosenthal LLP recently leased 9,000 square feet of new office space at the iconic, 31-story One South Street tower downtown.
