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At Harbor Point, where a $1 billion development is planned for the last remaining portion of Baltimore’s glittering Inner Harbor waterfront, city officials and the developer will gather Thursday to push for $107 million in tax breaks for the project.

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Outside the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre, large signs announced the expected construction of a $150 million, mixed-use redevelopment to be called Mechanic Center.

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The first residents of 23 for-sale units in a $238 million redevelopment of the West Baltimore community of Uplands moved in last week, officials said Monday as the ambitious project officially opened amid cautious optimism.

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The water quality in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor last year was given a grade of C-minus by local environmentalists hired to gauge the viability of one of the city’s greatest assets, its waterfront.

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More time, please. That was the request last week from an Atlanta- and New York-based development team to the Baltimore Development Corp. for a sixth extension of their exclusive land sale and development agreement for the $150 million Superblock project on the city’s West Side.

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The developer of a controversial proposal to build a Wal-Mart in Remington has filed court papers seeking a trial on the merits of a contractual dispute with the owner of the property.

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As the city comptroller criticized a plan by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to raise the water rates for Baltimore residents, Baltimore’s spending board on Wednesday set a June 26 public hearing date to discuss the three-year, 37 percent hike.

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Baltimore and its taxpayers had to pay an additional $1.4 million in fiscal 2011 due to faulty accounting procedures, auditors told the Board of Estimates on Wednesday.

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More than 100 parents and other community residents are fighting plans for a wireless tower to be constructed on the grounds of a public elementary school, one of the first to stem from a master agreement signed last year by the Anne Arundel County Board of Education.

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Plans for 25th Street Station, a mixed-use development in Baltimore’s Remington neighborhood, took another detour Thursday as the property owner said he has unilaterally selected a new developer for the controversial project.

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