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“All’s well that ends well!” shouted a crowd of nearly 150 as the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company kicked off renovations of the historic Mercantile Trust and Deposit Co. building at Calvert and Redwood streets Tuesday morning.

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More than three decades after the opening of Harborplace, which radically changed Baltimore’s waterfront and set a new vibe for the city, a local group is working to modernize the area with new parks and attractions.

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Despite a report from the city’s audit department that called for lower increases and protests from a packed room of residents about a lack of collection of $25 million in delinquent water bills, the Board of Estimates, Baltimore’s spending board. voted Wednesday to approve a three consecutive years of rate hikes for city water and sewage bills.

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A Baltimore City Council member said the head of the city’s development agency is making “personal attacks” based on an escalating dispute over public tax breaks for a $1 billion waterfront development.

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A hearing on motions stemming from contentious legal wrangling over the future of a planned Walmart-anchored development in Remington has been postponed until July 31.

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This month, St. John Properties Inc. began construction of the first building in its 18-acre Route 100 Tech Park, 12 miles from downtown Baltimore off Dorsey Road in Hanover.

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Calling the plans ill-suited to the site, the city’s design review panel on Thursday rejected schematic designs for a 15-story hotel in Middle East as part of the 88-acre East Baltimore Development Inc. project.

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Leo W. Burroughs Jr. called Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young and other top city officials “cowardly” in response to a plan to hike water rates in Baltimore by 37 percent over the next three years.

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Exclusive development rights for the city-owned Superblock property will be rebid in the fall, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday.

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Thanks, but no thanks. That’s what top Baltimore officials reportedly told the developers of the proposed $150 million Superblock redevelopment after they asked for a sixth extension on the exclusive development rights for the city-owned parcel.

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