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The number of closed home sales in Baltimore fell last month by nearly 20% from the previous May after a ransomware attack crippled the city’s ability to process sales. Baltimore metro area housing market data, via MarketStats by ShowingTime from ...

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball has requested an accelerated timetable to deliver a new plan guiding development in one of Maryland’s fastest-growing counties. Ball requested the Department of Planning and Zoning push up the schedule for updating the county’s general ...

Bill Struever, CEO of Cross Street Partners, has delivered a litany of adaptive reuses of historic buildings in his 45 year career as a developer. Overhauling the Hoen & Co. Lithograph Building in east Baltimore ranks among the most complicated. ...

A few years ago Rasheed Aziz was operating out of a rowhouse on North Avenue, a place Demian Costa, partner at Weller Development Co., recalled as “a little bit messed up.” Aziz, however, already had his sights set on an ...

There’s renewed interest in one of the last major parcels available on Baltimore’s Pratt Street. Kirby Fowler, president of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, declined to provide details but confirmed there’s interest in buying and building on 300 E. Pratt ...

As the woes of Baltimore’s Harborplace drag on, a new pop-up retail store across Pratt Street celebrated its launch on Thursday. M&T Bank, which chose to keep its regional headquarters downtown at the new One Light Street building, sponsored the ...

Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young said he’d consider selling city-owned land around the Harborplace retail pavilions and would back tearing down the buildings to make way for new development. Young added he’d like to see the area redeveloped as entertainment ...

Nearly a month after a ransomware attack crippled Baltimore government computer systems, only about 35% of city employees’ access is restored and the invasion has cost the city roughly $18 million. The city’s technology department created a “safe environment” to ...

Robert Manekin’s relatively brief law career reaches back to serving on the student court system at a public university in the tumultuous late 1960s. It followed a trajectory that landed him at the Pearl Harbor desk of a legendary naval ...

Councilman Bill Henry has launched his campaign for Baltimore comptroller arguing the job can play a significant role in real estate and economic development. Henry kicked off his campaign, flanked by Baltimore City Council members and state legislators, insisting the ...