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From the road, the wooded lot looks like most undeveloped suburban parcels. But a Catonsville developer’s plan to convert the 10.2-acre lot just north of Timonium into a 64-unit, age-restricted condominium community has stirred a string of protests around the ...

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An aggressive push to make a dent in the rehabilitation of 16,000 vacant houses in Baltimore was unveiled Wednesday and includes a Web-based marketing strategy, faster closings for purchases and $900 fines for code violations by absentee owners. The program, ...

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Next week’s foreclosure auction of the site once occupied by the old McCormick & Co. spice plant has stirred an array of visions about what kind of new development the Inner Harbor location could hold. The 1.9-acre site has been ...

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At the University of Baltimore’s real estate program, some of the lessons these days are in real time. That’s where Deborah A. Ford and other faculty are using the housing crisis as a teaching tool for students in the state’s ...

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Despite figures from the third quarter of 2010 that show a historically high vacancy rate of 18 percent in Baltimore’s downtown business district, some experts say the worst of the frozen real estate market is over. David Baird, senior managing ...

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The Chesapeake Restaurant, where legend has it city residents got their first taste of a tender grilled steak and tangy Caesar salad in the 1930s, was sold to a local development group on Wednesday in a deal before the Board ...

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Transportation and road upgrades near Fort George G. Meade will soon be made with $4 million in state funding as thousands of new jobs move into Anne Arundel County for military base and cyber command expansions. The money was granted ...

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Transportation and road upgrades near Fort George G. Meade will soon be made with $4 million in state funding as thousands of new jobs move into Anne Arundel County for military base and cyber command expansions. The funds, announced this ...

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As the issue of temporary moratoriums permeates the foreclosure crisis at the national level, housing experts in Maryland say they are monitoring the situation for local impact. Foreclosure rates in the state this summer hit one in every 480 housing ...

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A private cancer treatment company is investing in a $200 million venture at the University of Maryland BioPark in West Baltimore, bringing 110 permanent jobs to the city. The 100,000-square-foot Maryland Proton Treatment Center is expected to break ground in ...

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