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Installation of fire sprinklers in new U.S. homes got an overwhelming endorsement in a vote by the International Code Council at a conference in Baltimore. Meeting downtown at the Hilton Hotel, the general membership of the ICC voted Wednesday to ...

Downtown development in Columbia has dwindled to a halt. The last office building in Columbia’s core was built in 1995 and overall office vacancy is at nearly 20 percent. As the locals like to say, Jim Rouse’s visionary city, America’s original planned community, finds itself, ironically, without a plan.

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Columbia-based real estate trust Corporate Office Properties Trust paid $125 million to acquire Canton Crossing, the stalled real estate development in southeast Baltimore that banker Edwin F. Hale Sr. once said would be worth more than $1 billion. Now, COPT ...

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Baltimore officials on Wednesday approved the first contract for demolition as part of the proposed $100 million Superblock redevelopment project. The city will pay P&J Contracting Co. Inc. $1.2 million to knock down 12 buildings on the north side of ...

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ARLINGTON, Va. — The secretive Pentagon agency that brought us the Internet and tried to bring us bomb-sniffing bees, warrior exoskeletons and terrorism futures trading is moving to a new location. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, ...

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Baltimore development company has pulled out of a major construction project in Providence. Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse says it will give up its ownership stake in the $230 million American Locomotive Works project. The 23-acre ...

Gov. Martin O’Malley says he’s looking into legislation to require some effort at mediation “before the machinery of foreclosure and eviction starts up.” O’Malley said Tuesday that too many mortgage companies aren’t taking the trouble to modify loans in meaningful ...

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Their intention was to make it easier to read and understand. But leave it to the federal government to take what typically is a single-paged document and turn it into a three-page form.

Officials in Hagerstown have announced a bold incentive package to try and attract businesses the city’s downtown area. The Partners in Economic Progress program coincides with the launch of a new web site for Washington County, www.hagerstownadvance.com, which highlights the ...

Officials in Hagerstown have announced a bold incentive package to try and attract businesses the city’s downtown area.