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Committee guts measure to limit ticket surcharges
A Baltimore City Council bill that would have capped ticket surcharges at a percentage of the box office price was changed Tuesday to allow licensed ticket vendors to set the rate freely.
Editorial: Gerrymandering city’s enterprise zones
Baltimore City Council member Carl Stokes has a legitimate grievance regarding the gerrymandered enterprise zone that is enabling the developers of the swank Harbor Point project to earn tens of millions of dollars in state tax breaks.
City Council to Law Dept.: Help on hiring bill
In the hours before the Baltimore City Council moved forward on a proposed local hiring mandate, members of the council expressed their frustration with the city’s Law Department over its continued insistence that the bill is unconstitutional.
Blighted Johnston Square row houses rehabbed
A once-blighted block in Johnston Square has come alive this spring with the sound of drills, hammers and saws as construction workers continue a mission to upgrade 30 vacant houses in the East Baltimore neighborhood.
EBDI misses revenue projections, triggers special tax
Baltimore Department of Finance officials were forced to send a “special tax” bill of $1.2 million to East Baltimore Development Inc. in March in order to meet the scheduled payment on tax increment financing bonds sold to partially fund the $1.8 billion redevelopment of Middle East.
New housing sought at EBDI
Private builders are being sought to replace a cluster of rotting, vacant rowhouses in Middle East with at least 45 homes or duplexes that will list for up to $257,000 […]
City Council gives preliminary OK to bottle tax
A key committee of the Baltimore City Council voted Monday afternoon to send a proposed 3-cent increase in the city’s bottle tax to the full council for a vote this […]
Week in review – 6/1/12: Baltimore County to study Sparrows Point use
Officials: We’ll shut down EBDI project A group of East Baltimore elected officials vowed to shut down construction, public funding and permits at the $1.8 billion East Baltimore Development Inc. […]
Officials blast EBDI results
A group of East Baltimore elected officials vowed Wednesday to shut down construction, public funding and permits at the $1.8 billion East Baltimore Development Inc. project, saying that the massive […]
Baltimore again extends deadline for Superblock agreement
Top city officials Wednesday gave another extension to developers of the $150 million Superblock project so they could line up financing — including a newly proposed taxpayer-supported incentive that city […]
Liquor license granted for new restaurant near Hopkins Hospital
Owners of a proposed new restaurant for the 88-acre East Baltimore Development Inc. redevelopment were granted a liquor license Thursday at City Hall. Ernst Valery and Mondel L. Powell will […]
Rawlings-Blake’s property tax rate reduction bill to be introduced Monday night
A bill to lower Baltimore‘s property tax rate by 20 cents by 2020 will be introduced Monday night before the City Council. The legislation is a follow up to a […]
